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world-ash

noun

world-ash

noun
1

Human sciences, Lifestyle, Mysticism, Mythology, Paganism, Philosophy, Religion, Sciences Germanic, Norse Yggdrasil.

  • 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.1993, Bernard King, The elements of the Runes, Thorsons Element, →ISBN, page 95:
  • This eventuality would not be surprising if the world ash was, at the time, a small young tree.1988, David A. White, The turning wheel: a study of contracts and oaths in Wagner's ring, page 108:

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