"Yggdrasil, The World Tree in Norse Mythology" by Agnes D. Olson

woah.

You forgot the squirrel that brings messages between the eagle and the serpent at the bottom, makin’ the other one mad. And where the heim did the serpent at the roots come from? If Jormungandr, the WOrld Serpent, was the spawn of Loki, where did the one at the roots come from?

Well yea, you said it didnt you . The stories of the Ygg. Tree are like a stew in a pot with to many cooks involved. lol. We/I feel like an outsider trying to get the secert recipe for somethig which should have been handed down by Grandma/Grandpa....I like it ,it has heart.....By the way any body want to travel to see wild life let me know I’m a RTA........Thanks for the pix

Very good art piece! You know, recently I’ve been having this idea of mixing the cosmology of the greeks with that of the norse! Picture it, the entire cosmos as a large sphere, with the upper half of the universe as Uranus/Ouranos(the sky) and in the middle and center of the universe as a flat disk is Gaia/Terra/Midgard/Middle-Earth(the earth), with the trunk of , with Asgard, Vanaheim, and Alfheim in its bows, growing out of the center of her with Mt. Olympus beside it. Surrounding Gaia/Midgard would be Oceanus/Okeanos/Pontus(the encircling the world ocean) and surrounding him, bordering the edges of the entire universe would be the realm of Jotunheim. The lower half of the universe, beneath the earth, the ocean, and the realm of the giants and trolls, in the higher roots of Yggdrasil, are the realms of the dwarves and dark elves, and even lower still at the end of the roots are the realms Musplheim/Tartarus, and Nifleheim/Hel/Hades/The Underworld. and either within the bounderies of the sky, or beyond it is Gimle/Heaven/The Elysium Fields.

And inhabiting all these realms are Titans, Olympian Gods, Aesir Gods, Vanir Gods, Humans/Mortals, Demigods, Light-Elves, Dark-Elves, Wood-Nymphs, River Nymphs, Wood-Gods, River-Gods, Tritons/Nereids/Oceanids/Merpeople, Satyrs, Sileni, Fauns, Centaurs, Minotaurs, Trolls, Fire Giants, Frost Giants, Jotuns Gigantes, Cyclopes, Dwarves, Harpies, Erotes(winged gods based off of Eros/Cupid), Psychai(butterfly winged equivilants of erotes), Gorgons, Hecatonchires, Nymphs/Goddesses and Gods of the skies, mountains and underworld, and the three Fates being synonymous with the Norns.

I have recently found my path as an Asatraur. I must say your artwork is most beautiful. I was drawn here by the image of Freya, but looking at all images, I do love them much. Thank you for this beautiful study.

Beautiful!

This is amazing

I knew the serpent was spawned from Loki but he also spawned Hel, and Fenrir the great Wolf. Jormungandr however was the dragon chewing at the roots of Yggdrasil.

whered you get this? google? you suck.