Yggdrasil (Norse mythology)
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found: Work cat.: 2013003236: Tree of salvation, 2013:ECIP galley (Yggdrasil; originally THE symbolic tree of life in Scandinavian mythology; became Christian tree of salvation (Christian cross) as Christianity came to Scandinavia) data view summary (At the heart of the mythology of the Anglo-Scandinavian-Germanic North is the evergreen Yggdrasil, the tree of life believed to hold up the skies and unite and separate three worlds. With the advent of Christianity in the North around the year 1000, Yggdrasil was recast as the cross on which Christ sacrificed himself)
found: Britannica online, May 3, 2013:Yggdrasill (Old Norse Mimameider, in Norse mythology, the world tree, a giant ash supporting the universe)
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2013-04-23: new
2013-07-08: revised
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