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n/a (Original Post) Bucky Apr 2015 OP
Maybe Atlas? marym625 Apr 2015 #1
I thought Yggdrasil sharp_stick Apr 2015 #2
Wait a minute... antiquie Apr 2015 #3
Yggdrasil is the tree of life. In_The_Wind Apr 2015 #4
Of horse, course (how does he make those puns???) antiquie Apr 2015 #5
very punny In_The_Wind Apr 2015 #7
Oh phernegribel - you got me there lame54 Apr 2015 #6

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
2. I thought Yggdrasil
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 01:27 PM
Apr 2015

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)
5. Of horse, course (how does he make those puns???)
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 02:36 PM
Apr 2015

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.

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