world-ash
See also: world ash
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Noun
[edit]- (Norse mythology and Germanic paganism) Yggdrasil.
- 1993, Bernard King, The elements of the Runes, Thorsons Element, →ISBN, page 95:
- Ash is a strongly runic tree by implication, the world-ash Yggdrasil being the tree from which Odin hung in order to obatin the runes.
- 1988, David A. White, The turning wheel: a study of contracts and oaths in Wagner's ring, page 108:
- This eventuality would not be surprising if the world ash was, at the time, a small young tree.