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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orfew, post: 2714264, member: 74968&quot;]Wonderful coins [USER=73099]@Nap[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>Could the tree be yggdrasil?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://norse-mythology.org/cosmology/yggdrasil-and-the-well-of-urd/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://norse-mythology.org/cosmology/yggdrasil-and-the-well-of-urd/" rel="nofollow">http://norse-mythology.org/cosmology/yggdrasil-and-the-well-of-urd/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><b>YGGDRASIL AND THE WELL OF URD</b></font></p><p><a href="http://norse-mythology.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Yggdrasil.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://norse-mythology.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Yggdrasil.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://norse-mythology.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Yggdrasil-239x300.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>“Yggdrasil” by Oluf Olufsen Bagge (1847)</p><p>At the center of the Norse spiritual cosmos is an ash tree, Yggdrasil (pronounced “IG-druh-sill”; <a href="http://norse-mythology.org/learn-old-norse/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://norse-mythology.org/learn-old-norse/" rel="nofollow">Old Norse</a> <i>Askr Yggdrasils</i>), which grows out of the Well of Urd (Old Norse <i>Urðarbrunnr</i>). The <a href="http://norse-mythology.org/cosmology/the-nine-worlds/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://norse-mythology.org/cosmology/the-nine-worlds/" rel="nofollow">Nine Worlds</a> are held in the branches and roots of the tree. The name <i>Askr Yggdrasils</i> probably strikes most modern people as being awkwardly complex. It means “the ash tree of the horse of <i>Yggr</i>.”[1] <i>Yggr</i>means “The Terrible One,” and is a byname of <a href="http://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/the-aesir-gods-and-goddesses/odin/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/the-aesir-gods-and-goddesses/odin/" rel="nofollow">Odin</a>. The horse of Odin is <a href="http://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/others/sleipnir/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/others/sleipnir/" rel="nofollow">Sleipnir</a>. This may seem like a puzzling name for a tree, but it makes sense when one considers that the tree as a means of transportation between worlds is a common theme in Eurasian <a href="http://norse-mythology.org/concepts/shamanism/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://norse-mythology.org/concepts/shamanism/" rel="nofollow">shamanism</a>.[2]Odin rides Sleipnir up and down Yggdrasil’s trunk and through its branches on his frequent journeys throughout the Nine Worlds. “Urd” (pronounced “URD”; Old Norse <i>Urðr</i>, Old English <i>Wyrd</i>) means “<a href="http://norse-mythology.org/concepts/destiny-wyrd-urd/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://norse-mythology.org/concepts/destiny-wyrd-urd/" rel="nofollow">destiny</a>.” The Well of Urd could therefore just as aptly be called the Well of Destiny.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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