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单词 yggdrasil
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Yggdrasiln.

Brit. /ˈɪɡdrəsɪl/, U.S. /ˈɪɡdrəsəl/
Forms: 1700s Ydrasil, 1800s Igdrasil, Y(g)gdrasil.
Etymology: < Old Norse yg(g)drasill, also askr yg(g)drasils lit. ash-tree of Yggdrasil (? < Yggr name of Odin + drasill horse; but the formation is obscure).
Mythology.
In Scandinavian mythology, the great tree whose branches and roots extend through the universe. Also allusively.
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1770 T. Percy tr. P. H. Mallet Northern Antiq. II. viii. 49 Gangler demanded: Which is the capital of the Gods, or the sacred city? Har answers, It is under the Ash Ydrasil; where the Gods assemble every day, and administer justice.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 165 The Tree Igdrasil, that has its roots down in the Kingdoms of Hela and Death, and whose boughs overspread the highest Heaven!
1865 W. H. Gillespie Argument Moral Attributes God 51 It [sc. Love] is, in fact, the mundane Yggdrasil.
1865 J. R. Lowell Thoreau in N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 597 The nameless eagle of the tree Ygdrasil.
1878 Emerson in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 413 You say: ‘Cut away; my tree is Ygdrasil—the tree of life.’
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