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Yggdrasil: Tree of Life

Nine Worlds in Norse Myth

Norse Cosmology contains ‘nine homeworlds’ (Níu Heimar in Old Norse) in which all beings inhabit. These worlds are centered on the World Tree, Yggdrasil, which lies at the centre of the cosmos. E…

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Tree of life 9 realms

There are nine worlds in Norse Mythology, they are called Niflheim, Muspelheim, Asgard, Midgard, Jotunheim, Vanaheim, Alfheim, Svartalfheim, Helheim. The nine worlds in Norse mythology are held in …

Yggdrasil is the axis-mundi of Norse mythology that holds the nine realms of the cosmos together. In its upper branches live giants, gods and nature spirits, while in its roots live dwarves, demons and millions of dead, human souls.

The Great Wheel cosmology was the prevalent cosmological model in which the world of Toril was said to exist during the mid-14th century DR and the post-Second Sundering era.[1][2][note 1] The Great Wheel was described as a complex, comparatively cosmopolitan place in which the gods of many worlds and pantheons mingled, the beliefs of many faiths and peoples bleeding together in a set of Outer Planes shaped predominantly by the polar forces of Law, Chaos, Good, and Evil. Thus it was that…

The Nine Realms of Ygrissil, the world tree, according to Thor.

Yggdrasil "The Tree of Life" and the Nine Realms