"Baxters Patent Oil Printing 11 Northampton square Yggdrasil, The Mundane Tree see p. 492", from a plate included in the English translation of the Prose Edda by Oluf Olufsen Bagge (1847)
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Oluf Olufsen Bagge (1780-1836), Yggdrasil, Prose Edda, 1847
Danish engraver b Copenhagen; d Copenhagen?
Yggdrasil is an immense ash tree that is central to Norse cosmology and considered very holy. The gods go to Yggdrasil daily to hold their courts. The branches of Yggdrasil extend far into the heavens, and the tree is supported by three roots that extend far away into other locations; one to the well Urðarbrunnr in the heavens, one to the spring Hvergelmir, and another to the well Mímisbrunnr. Creatures live within Yggdrasil, including the wyrm (dragon) Níðhöggr, an unnamed eagle, and the stags Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and Duraþrór.
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Yggdrasil, l'Arbre-Monde des Vikings et de la mythologie nordique. Peinture attribuée à Oluf Bagge (1780-1836), dont gravure extraite d’une planche incluse dans la traduction en anglais de l’Edda en Prose par Oluf Bagge lui-même (publiée en 1847).