Yggdrasil

Illustration of the world tree, Yggdrasil.

“I know that an ash-tree stands called Yggdrasil,
a high tree, soaked with shining loam;
from there comes the dews which fall in the valley, ever green, it stands over the well of fate.”

Yggdrasil is the mythical tree of life described often in Norse Legends. Multiple allusions to Nordic symbols and myths can be found interwoven throughout the illustration.