An ash know I standing
Named Ygdrasil,
A stately tree sprinkled
With water, the purest;
Thence come the dewdrops
That fall in the dales;
Ever blooming it stands
O’er the Urdar-fountain.
The dew that falls from the tree on the earth men call honey-dew, and it is the food of the bees. Finally, two swans swim in the Urdar-fountain, and they are the parents of the race of swans. Thus all the tribes of nature partake of the universal tree.