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English: English translation of the Prose Edda from 1847, by Oluf Olufsen Bagge.

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"Baxters Patent Oil Printing 11 Northampton square
Yggdrasil, The Mundane Tree
see p. 492",
from a plate included in the English translation of the Prose Edda by Oluf Olufsen Bagge (1847)

Description below from Flickr consulted January 3, 2020:

Oluf Olufsen Bagge (1780-1836), Yggdrasil, Prose Edda, 1847

Danish engraver b Copenhagen; d Copenhagen?

Yggdrasil is an immense ash tree that is central to Norse cosmology and considered very holy. The gods go to Yggdrasil daily to hold their courts. The branches of Yggdrasil extend far into the heavens, and the tree is supported by three roots that extend far away into other locations; one to the well Urðarbrunnr in the heavens, one to the spring Hvergelmir, and another to the well Mímisbrunnr. Creatures live within Yggdrasil, including the wyrm (dragon) Níðhöggr, an unnamed eagle, and the stags Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and Duraþrór.

Date

1847

Source

From Northern Antiquities.

Author



Description	printmaker and drawer
Date of birth/death	22 December 1780	22 September 1836
Authority file	: Q12330207 VIAF: 2248343 ISNI: 000000005347899X LCCN: no2007069098 SUDOC: 167262319 WorldCat

Other versions

Higher resolution version, from a different book by Magnusen, Finn. Publisher: Bohn, Henry G., 1859

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