Yggdrasil


Under Ygdrasil-Træ var Gudernes Sted, -
Træet er dødt og Guderne med!

Source: H. C. Andersen, ABC-Bogen (1858).

Translation by D. L. Ashliman:

Beneath Yggdrasil-Tree was the place of the Gods.
The tree is dead, and the Gods as well.


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