Igdrasil
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Asgard was overshadowed by the mighty tree Igdrasil.
From Harper's Young People, August 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
Isis and Osiris grow dim; Jove nods in heaven; the pipe of Pan is dumb; Thor is silent in the northern Aurora; the tree of Igdrasil waves in midnight; Confucius is pale; Muhammad is dust.
From The Warriors by Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown
The living Tree Igdrasil, with the melodious prophetic waving of its world-wide boughs, deep-rooted as Hela, has died-out into the clanking of a World-Machine.
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas
The Tree Igdrasil, that has its roots down in the kingdoms of Hela and Death, and whose boughs overspread the highest heaven!—Carlyle.
From An English Grammar by Sewell, James Witt
I like, too, that representation they have of the Tree Igdrasil.
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas
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