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The poetic Edda

Note 19 — The Wise-Woman’s Prophecy

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Yggdrasil: cf. stanza 2 and note, and Grimnismol, 29–35 and notes. Urth (“The Past”): one of the three great Norns. The world-ash is kept green by being sprinkled with the marvelous healing water from her well.

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