In the 2011 Marvel Studios superhero film Thor, the Asgardian warrior Thor explains that the Nine Realms of the Asgardian cosmos are linked by Yggdrasil, the Norse mythological Tree of Life, which is here interpreted as a nebula in space connecting the planets in an orbit.

Níðhöggr gnaws the roots of Yggdrasil in this illustration from a 17th century Icelandic manuscript. Similarly Níðhöggr ( Nidhogg Nagar ) the dragon of Norse mythology eats from the roots of the Yggdrasil, the World Tree.

In Norse mythology, the World Tree Yggdrasil is commonly held to be an ash tree, and the first man, Ask, was formed from an ash tree.

In Norse mythology, Níðhöggr ( Malice Striker, often anglicized Nidhogg ) is a dragon who gnaws at a root of the World Tree, Yggdrasill.

Yggdrasil is the World Tree of Norse mythology.

The powerful oak as the Summer Tree is similar to Yggdrasil, the World Ash Tree of Norse mythology.

Olaf Tree Feller ( Old Norse: Óláfr trételgja, Swedish: Olof Trätälja, Norwegian: Olav Tretelgja, all meaning Olaf Woodwhittler ) was the son of the Swedish king Ingjald Ill-ruler of the House of Yngling according to Ynglingatal.

The Drasil trees ' name resembles that of the Norse " World Tree ", Yggdrasil.

Shortly afterwards, she tried to access the power of a mystical convergence using a Runestaff made from the roots of Yggdrasil, the Norse World Tree.

* Yggdrasil ( World Ash Tree in Norse cosmology )

In Norse mythology, four stags or harts ( male Red Deer ) eat among the branches of the World Tree Yggdrasill.

A professor is looking for something called " The Tree ", mentioned in Norse legends as Yggdrasil, and in Christianity as the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

* Thor, along with the other Norse gods, appears in David Brin's comic, The Life Eaters.

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" At the court of Charlemagne the Norse were given this attribution, implying un-Christian and less-than-human qualities: " I am greatly saddened " said the King of the Franks, in Notker's Life, " that I have not been thought worthy to let my Christian hand sport with these dog-heads.

Life under the Scottish earls — especially after the creation of the second line of Earls of Orkney — over time incorporated aspects of Scottish culture while still keeping the Norn language place and family names and other distinct aspects of Norse influence on the isles.

The ancient Norse and Germanic peoples believed in a flat earth cosmography of the earth surrounded by an ocean, with the axis mundi ( a world-tree: Yggdrasil, or pillar: Irminsul ) in the centre.

Many Heathen groups adopt variants of Norse mythology as a basis to their beliefs, conceiving of the Earth as being situated on a great world tree called Yggdrasil.

In Norse mythology, Ratatoskr ( Old Norse, generally considered to mean " drill-tooth " or " bore-tooth ") is a squirrel who runs up and down the world tree Yggdrasil to carry messages between the unnamed eagle, perched atop Yggdrasil, and the wyrm Níðhöggr, who dwells beneath one of the three roots of the tree.

An 1847 depiction of the Norse Yggdrasil as described in the Iceland ic Prose Edda by Oluf Olufsen Bagge

Finally the Finno-Ugaritic strand of this diffusion spread through Russia to Finland where the Norse myth of Yggdrasil took root.

The tree of life appears in Norse religion as Yggdrasil, the world tree, a massive tree ( sometimes considered a yew or ash tree ) with extensive lore surrounding it.

In another version of Norse mythology, Utgard is thought to be the final of the three worlds connected to Yggdrasil being the home of the demons, the other two being Asgard and Midgard.

In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil (; from Old Norse Yggdrasill, pronounced ) is an immense tree that is central in Norse cosmology, on which the nine worlds existed.

In the second stanza of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the völva ( a shamanic seeress ) reciting the poem to the god Odin says that she remembers far back to " early times ", being raised by jötnar, recalls nine worlds and " nine wood-ogresses " ( Old Norse nío ídiðiur ), and when Yggdrasil was a seed (" glorious tree of good measure, under the ground ").

" While Yggdrasil is not mentioned by name in the poem and other trees exist in Norse mythology, the tree is near universally accepted as Yggdrasil, and if the tree is Yggdrasil, then the name Yggdrasil directly relates to this story.

In stanza 34, Odin says that more serpents lie beneath Yggdrasil " than any fool can imagine " and lists them as Góinn and Móinn ( possibly meaning Old Norse " land animal "), which he describes as sons of Grafvitnir ( Old Norse, possibly " ditch wolf "), Grábakr ( Old Norse " Greyback "), Grafvölluðr ( Old Norse, possibly " the one digging under the plain " or possibly amended as " the one ruling in the ditch "), Ófnir ( Old Norse " the winding one, the twisting one "), and Sváfnir ( Old Norse, possibly " the one who puts to sleep

The conception that diseases and death come from invisible shots sent by supernatural beings, or magicians is common in Germanic and Norse mythology.

In Norse religion, Asgard ( Old Norse: Ásgarðr ; meaning " Enclosure of the Æsir ") is one of the Nine Worlds and is the country or capital city of the Norse Gods surrounded by an incomplete wall attributed to a Hrimthurs riding the stallion Svaðilfari, according to Gylfaginning.

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >

Alfheim (, " elf home ") is one of the Nine Worlds and home of the Light Elves in Norse mythology and appears also in Anglo-Scottish ballads under the form Elfhame ( Elphame, Elfame ) as a fairyland, sometimes modernized as Elfland ( Elfinland, Elvenland ).

Álfheim as an abode of the Elves is mentioned only twice in Old Norse texts.

Old Norse askr literally means " ash tree " but the etymology of embla is uncertain, and two possibilities of the meaning of embla are generally proposed.

Ægir ( Old Norse " sea ") is a sea giant, god of the ocean and king of the sea creatures in Norse mythology.

( from Icelandic for " Æsir faith ", pronounced, in Old Norse ) is a form of Germanic neopaganism which developed in the United States from the 1970s.

is an Icelandic ( and equivalently Old Norse ) term consisting of two parts.

The first is -, genitive of, denoting one of the group of Norse heathen gods called.

The term is the Old Norse / Icelandic translation of, a neologism coined in the context of 19th century romantic nationalism, used by Edvard Grieg in his 1870 opera Olaf Trygvason.

( plural ), the term used to identify those who practice Ásatrú is a compound with ( Old Norse ) " man ".

A Goði or Gothi ( plural goðar ) is the historical Old Norse term for a priest and chieftain in Norse paganism.

The word aegis is identified with protection by a strong force with its roots in Greek mythology and adopted by the Romans ; there are parallels in Norse mythology and in Egyptian mythology as well, where the Greek word aegis is applied by extension.

Ægir is an Old Norse word meaning " terror " and the name of a destructive giant associated with the sea ; ægis is the genitive ( possessive ) form of ægir and has no direct relation to Greek aigis.

The exact derivation is unclear, with the Old English fiæll or feallan and the Old Norse fall all being possible candidates.