Yggr. A name of Odin. Ygg.

Yggdrasill [The bearer of Ygg (Odin)]. The world-embracing ash tree. The whole world is symbolized by this tree. Ygdrasil.

Ýmir. The huge giant in the cosmogony, out of whose body Odin, Vile and Ve created the world. The progenitor of the giants. He was formed out of frost and fire in Ginungagap. Ymer.

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Footnotes

[1]. Max Müller’s Review of Dr. Dasent’s The Norseman in Iceland.

[2]. The founder of Normandy in France.

[3]. Sæmund the Wise.

[4]. Snorre Sturleson.