Yggdrasil: The World Tree & The Nine Realms

Yggdrasil is one of those symbols people think they understand at first glance, but the deeper you go into the mythology, the more you realize how central it really is. It isn’t just a tree — it’s the backbone of the entire Norse cosmos, holding together the realms of gods, humans, giants, ancestors, spirits, and everything in between. Every major story in the Eddas touches Yggdrasil in some way…