 | Grenville Pigott - 1839 - Liczba stron: 426
...NORNIES ELVES DWARFS. THE Prose Edda gives the following description of the sacred Ash, Yggdrasill. " The principal and most sacred tree of the gods is...amongst the Gods ; another with the Frost-Giants, where Ginnungagap was before ; the third covers Niffi-heim. Under this root is the fountain Hvergelmer,... | |
 | Grenville Pigott - 1839 - Liczba stron: 426
...NORNIES ELVES DWARFS. THE Prose Edda gives the following description of the sacred Ash, Yggdrasill. " The principal and most sacred tree of the gods is the Ash-tree, Ygg-' drasill, which is the best and greatest of all trees. Its branches extend' over the whole universe,... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1844 - Liczba stron: 334
...more by heavenly minstrels. Shall the green earth be trod, Hymning a world redeemed, A reconciled God! NOTES. (1) Page 19. ' The principal and most sacred...gods, another with the Frost-Giants, the third covers NifTelheim Under this root is the fountain Hvergelmer, from which flow the infernal rivers, and in... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1847 - Liczba stron: 280
...honeydew, shed from the branches of the sacred tree,* over whose spreading boughs the Nornas • " The principal and most sacred tree of the gods is...greatest of all trees. Its branches extend over the whule universe, reaching beyond the heavens ; its stem bears up the earth ; its three roots stretch... | |
 | 1876 - Liczba stron: 706
...alias semper, askr (ash-tree) yggdrasils." In the younger or prose Edda it is thus described : — " The principal and most sacred tree of the gods is the ash-tree, Yggdrasill, which ¡a the best and greatest of all trees. Its brunches extend отег the whole universe, reaching beyond... | |
 | 1876 - Liczba stron: 602
...In the younger or prose Edda it is thus described : — " The principal and most sacred tree of tha gods is the ash-tree, Yggdrasill, which is the best...three roots stretch themselves wide around : one is among the gods ; another with the frost-giants, where Ginnungagap was before: the third covers Niflheim... | |
 | 1855 - Liczba stron: 668
...of the gods," says Pigott (Manual of Scandinavian Mythology, p. 216.), "is the ash-tree Fggdrasill, which is the best and greatest of all trees. Its branches...three roots stretch themselves wide around : one is among the gods j another with the frost giants, where Ginnungugap was before ; the third covers Niff-heim."... | |
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The principal and most sacred tree of the gods is the Ash-tree, Yggdrasill, which is the best and greatest of all trees. Its branches extend over the whole universe, reaching beyond the heavens ; its stem bears up the earth ; its three roots stretch themselves... 