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Quotation from The Poetic Edda by Anonymous (Old Norse)

“An ash I know, | Yggdrasil its name, With water white | is the great tree wet;”

Anonymous (Old Norse) (spoken by The Volva)

The Poetic Edda, Voluspo, stanza 19, trans. Henry Adams Bellows (1923)

Portrait of Anonymous (Old Norse)

The seeress describes the world-tree at the centre of the cosmos, watered from Urth's well.

Citation: "An ash I know, | Yggdrasil its name, With water white | is the great tree wet;" — Anonymous (Old Norse), The Poetic Edda, Voluspo, stanza 19, trans. Henry Adams Bellows (1923). (id poetic-edda-q2)

Portrait: Codex Regius of Eddaic Poems, Unknown author, Public domain.

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