![]() Mimir drinks mead every morning from Val-father's pledge. I know it all, Odin, where you deposited your eye, in that renowned well of Mimir. All-father went there and asked for a single drink from the well, but he did not get one until he placed his eye as a pledge. He is full of learning because he drinks of the well from the horn Giallarhorn. But under the root that reaches towards the frost-giants, there is where Mimir's well is, which has wisdom and intelligence contained in it, and the master of the well is called Mimir. The third extends over Niflheim, and under that root is Hvergelmir, and Nidhogg gnaws the bottom of the root. Anthony Faulkes, autor duna edició i duna traducció en anglès de lEdda, ho va considerar així: 'improbable, especialment per raons de lingüística històrica', però també pel fet que Snorri no vivia pas a Oddi en el moment de compondre lobra. One is among the Æsir, the second among the frost-giants, where Ginnungagap once was. This Norse story of the origin of the earth, sky, and humanity is paraphrased from Snorri Sturlusons Edda, as translated by Anthony Faulkes. ![]() ![]() Three of the tree's roots support it and extend very, very far. Its branches spread out over all the world and extend across the sky. Then said Just-as-high: 'The ash is of all trees the biggest and best. Then spoke Gangleri: 'What is there to tell about that place?' There the gods must hold their courts each day.' High replied: 'It is at the ash Yggdrasil. ![]() “Then spoke Gangleri: 'Where is the chief centre or holy place of the gods?' ![]()
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