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I'd like to propose an addition to the Modern influence section next to the Japanese novel "Overlord". "Yggdrasil" is the name of the Discord bot. Kosburrat 18:24, 14 October 2022 (UTC) Is there an independent reliable source that mentions it? Schazjmd (talk) 18:28, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
In Norse mythology, Ratatoskr (Old Norse, generally considered to mean "drill-tooth" [1] or "bore-tooth" [2]) is a squirrel who runs up and down the world tree Yggdrasil to carry messages between the eagles perched atop it and the serpent Níðhöggr who dwells beneath one of the three roots of the tree.
Yggdrasil (from Old Norse Yggdrasill) is an immense and central sacred tree in Norse cosmology. Around it exists all else, including the Nine Worlds . Yggdrasil is attested in the Poetic Edda compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and in the Prose Edda compiled in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson .
An illustration from a 17th-century Icelandic manuscript shows a hawk, Veðrfölnir, on top of an eagle on top of a tree, Yggdrasil. In Norse mythology, Veðrfölnir (Old Norse "storm pale", [1] "wind bleached", [2] or "wind-witherer" [3]) is a hawk sitting between the eyes of an unnamed eagle that is perched on top of the world tree Yggdrasil.
An 1847 depiction of the Norse Yggdrasil as described in the Icelandic Prose Edda by Oluf Olufsen Bagge 17th-century depiction of the tree of life in Palace of Shaki Khans, Azerbaijan Confronted animals, here ibexes, flank a tree of life, a very common motif in the art of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean Breastfeeding before an Egyptian "sycamore"
Simek concludes that due to the location of the well, Mímameiðr is potentially another name for Yggdrasil. In addition, Simek says that Hoddmímis holt ("Hoard- Mímir 's" holt )—a wood whose name refers to the same figure and wherein Líf and Lífþrasir survive Ragnarök —may also be another name for Yggdrasil, and therefore is likely ...
Apple of Discord (also Golden Apple of Discord), the goddess Eris inscribed "to the fairest" and tossed in the midst of the festivities at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. ( Greek mythology ) Forbidden fruit , eaten by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, which they had been commanded not to do by God .
Yggdrasil (Old Norse 'Yggr's horse') is a cosmic tree from which Odin sacrificed himself, and which connects the Nine worlds. 19th century scholar Jakob Grimm connects the name Irmin with Old Norse terms like iörmungrund ("great ground", i.e. the Earth) or iörmungandr ("great snake", i.e. the Midgard serpent). [3]