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Further into chapter 16, High states that norns that dwell by Urðarbrunnr take water from the well and mud that lies around it, and pour it over the Yggdrasil so that its branches do not decay or rot.

The water is described as so holy that anything that enters the well will become " as white as the membrane called the skin that lies round the inside of the eggshell.

" High then quotes stanza 19 of Völuspá, and states that two swans feed from the well, from which all other swans descend.

Chapter 17 starts off with Gangleri asking what other " chief centres " exist outside of Urðarbrunnr.