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Bucky
Apr 2015
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marym625
(17,997 posts)1. Maybe Atlas?
However, that shrug is coming. Hold tight!
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)2. I thought Yggdrasil
was some kind of vaccine against genital warts or cancer or some such shit.
What the hell does that have to do with keeping the worlds out of the Ginnungagap?
Goddamn pharmaceutical ads get weirder and weirder.
antiquie
(4,299 posts)3. Wait a minute...
Is Yggdrasil The Tree of Life or Odin's Horse?
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)4. Yggdrasil is the tree of life.
antiquie
(4,299 posts)5. Of horse, course (how does he make those puns???)
I misread the wiki:
The generally accepted meaning of Old Norse Yggdrasill is "Odin's horse", meaning "gallows". This interpretation comes about because drasill means "horse" and Ygg(r) is one of Odin's many names. The Poetic Edda poem Hávamál describes how Odin sacrificed himself by hanging from a tree, making this tree Odin's gallows. This tree may have been Yggdrasil. Gallows can be called "the horse of the hanged" and therefore Odin's gallows may have developed into the expression "Odin's horse", which then became the name of the tree.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)7. very punny
:snort:
Why don't we have a snort smilie?
lame54
(35,287 posts)6. Oh phernegribel - you got me there