the 1st pic is of the yggdrasil tree made in the viking age,this photo is believed to show the yggdrasil tree with the god named Viðópnir.

this one is a copy of the illustration from the Ockelbo Runestone, 11th-century Sweden.

this is my fav, this illustration shows the a 19th century attempt to recreate the view of prose edda.....

i passed a cinema and noticed the poster advertizing beowulf.

so i read the book and there is this treet hat facinates me....its called yggdrasil.

the world ash tree, i have no idea why but the name sounds damned familiar...i still cant recall where i read the name...

so anyway, i googled "yggdrasil" and went into wikipedia this is what i found.....i copied the text.... this is only a snipet if you want the whole thing you google it urself!

In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil (Old Norse Yggdrasill, IPA: [ˈygˌdrasilː]; the extra -l is a nominative case marker) is the World Tree, a great ash tree located at the center of the universe and joining the nine worlds of Norse cosmology. The trunk of the tree may be thought of as forming a vertical axis around which these worlds are situated, with Ásgard, realm of the gods, at the top and the underworld realm of Niflheim at the bottom. Midgard, the world of mortals, is located in the middle and surrounded by Jötunheim, land of giants, both of which are separated by the ocean. Yggdrasil is also sometimes known as Mimameid or Laerad.......

and this

etymology and alternative names

The most commonly accepted etymology of the name is ygg "terrible" + drasil "steed". While the name means the "terrible steed", it is usually taken to mean the "steed of the the terrible one", with Yggr the epithet of the god Odin. In other words, Odin's horse, referring to the nine nights he is said to have spent hanging from the tree, or "riding the gallows", in order to acquire knowledge of the runes. The gallows are sometimes described in Old Norse poetry as the "horse of the hanged." In the case of "terrible steed", the association with Odin may be secondary, and any number of riders possible. A third interpretation, with etymological difficulties, is "yew-column", associating the tree with the Eihwaz rune ᛇ.
Fjölsvinnsmál, a poem in the Poetic Edda, refers to the World Tree as Mimameid (ON: Mímameiðr, "Mímir's tree" ). The tree is also probably identical to Laerad (ON: Læraðr) a tree whose leaves and branches reach down to the roof of Valhalla and provide food for the goat Heidrun (ON: Heiðrún) and the stag Eikthyrnir (ON: Eikþyrnir).

as an explanation to prose edda mentioned in the caption of the third picture....

this is what i found when i googled it

The Prose Edda, also known also as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda (Icelandic: Snorra Edda) is an Icelandic collection of poems containing many stories from Norse mythology. The work was written by the Icelandic scholar and historian Snorri Sturluson around 1220.
The Prose Edda opens with a Prologue and consists of three distinct books: the Gylfaginning (c 20,000 words), the Skáldskaparmál (c 50,000 words) and the Háttatal (c 20,000 words). Seven manuscripts, dating from around 1300 to around 1600, have independent textual value.
The purpose of the collection was to enable Icelandic poets and readers to understand the subtleties of alliterative verse and to grasp the meaning behind the many kennings that were used in skaldic poetry.

cool huh....

but thats not really what i'm most facinated by...that would be reserved to the legend of fenrir..... i bet those of you who read harry potter the 6th and 7th book would find that name familiar... the origin of that name is from the wolf that is bound by....a gods chains...the chains were helped in construction by the dwalves.this wolf was bound by these chains...but according to norse legend the wolf is gonna one day grow so big that the chain imprisoning him will break and when it does the wolf will devour odin in his hall to be killed by his son.. cool huh.

k i'll be off.....but this is my thought if the legend of Fenrir is when he DOES burst free from the chain he might be to old to attack ANYONE...... he'll be an old wolf...

k.... c ya