Yggdrasill in the Prose Edda
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2020
- A reading of Snorri Sturluson's description of Yggdrasill in the Prose Edda, both in the original Old Norse and in English translation with some light commentary.
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"Your mama is so old, she remembers when Ymir was whole."
I strongly petition for this joke to show up in runes on a t-shirt in the Teespring merchandise shop.
There is a wealth of inside jokes here 😂
Yo mama is so fat she wears Jormundgandr as a belt
Epic
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This one always crack me up
Ladies and gentlemen, this guy right here is the ultimate definition of cool. Chilling casually with bighorn sheep buddies in the mountains, and then all of a sudden this majestic voice reading in old Norse as if it is the most natural thing ever. I got goosebumps. Thanks al lot for everything you do. All the best to you Dr Crawford.
“As a hummingbird battle rages above me...” 🤣 Thank you for sharing your knowledge so relatively poor people like me don’t have to go into debt to hear an expert’s lessons, and I love hearing your reconstructed old Norse.
Thanks for showing the text as you are translating it. That makes it possible for me to guess it's meaning, using my native Norwegian, and get immediate feedback on its accuracy. I didn't do too bad this time!
Nice work! Looking forward to reading your translation of the Prose Edda when it comes out.
I really could listen to Dr. Crawford speak Old Norse all day
Old Norse is really a beautiful language to hear spoken. It flows so nice.
mimer (mimir) is the name of i think the largest rental apartment owning company in sweden ( i think ). so if you are staying in a rental apartment in sweden chances are high that you are paying every month to mimer (mimir).
it's also a half dead forum, i can sometimes find old essays there on topics i'm researching
Thank you for this entertaining reading. Lots of notes you make are entertaining and enlightening, but I must admit that I laughed out loud when you talked about Ratatoskr. That is a hilarious concept to discuss or think about. Thank you also for adding your personal thoughts, both about the poem content and about your nearby mountain goat friends.
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edit: Thank you for the PSA. I wish you all the best in return, and thank you again for making these online videos. I agree that they spread the message farther than regular university lectures could achieve.
Love the close look at the sources. Ever done a close look at the descriptions of boats and ships? I am wooden boat builder and would like to look closer at the sagas for sources.
As to why the Norns have to keep the tree from rotting or shriveling by watering it: The text has just mentioned Nidhogg, the worm that gnaws on the roots of the tree, and there being more worms by the roots than anyone can count. That could be why the tree needs healing water. No plant likes having it’s roots cut. The Nidhogg and the other worms might even be poisoning the tree, or trying to, in general, harm it.
This was exactly my thought. We have one image of a root being gnawed and harmed and another of a root being maintained.
Very educational as usual.
Thank you so much for these videos. Saving me hours of research
Being an expert in Norse mythology sounds as lucrative as my area of expertise, computational geochemistry.
I am enjoying your videos. Thanks for making them.
I am very excited to read your translation of the Prose Edda!
I imagine that "world" would mean: not planet, not alternate dimension. Nothing so sophisticated. Just what one imagines as a consequence of the description + the belief that it is real. And that's the end of it.
"your mom is so old, she remembers when ymir was whole" lol
*Dabs*
I can listen to you speak old norse all day
i really like the addition of the sheep. thanks for encluding them.
You Dear Dr. Jackson Crawford have a true Anamism Spirit. Thank you
This is very interesting. The best thing is to hear his old norse pronunciation along with the reading itself.
Great subject
I'm really looking forward to reading your translation when it's released and I have to thank you for doing such a great channel. I've always wondered, has anyone from the entertainment industry ever got in contact with you regarding Old Norse language/myths?
Great intonation of Old Norse
Fantastic ♥♥♥♥♥
Question: At 12:35 when you mention that the ash tree isn't a pine tree and explain that is just "barr" because of its alliteration with "bíta", wouldn't that be explained if the tree was in fact a Yew tree, given how the name of said tree had "ash" in its name also. Would that "asksins ok bíta barr" part count as evidence for that idea?
Edit: I think the whole "rotting tree" part could also be explained if the tree was a Yew given how really old Yew trees look
You beat me to it! If I remember correctly the term "barrask" is used for Yew-tree. Deers can be found eating the young yew-needles (which few other animals does as they are toxic). Yew-tree has a very interestig "symbolic" as well as its needles are deadly to many animals (the old needles are deadly toxic even to humans), however correcty harvested and prepared the needles can be used as heart medicin (which were known by Hildebranth of Bingen as well as arabic doctors at the time). So it sort of gives both life and death. Add to that yew-trees can become very very old and it is easy to see how one could interpret it as holy.
There's a guy called Michael Dunning who's looked at Celtic history and reckons the tree of life is yew. Yew Mysteries dot com.
Yew tree is called idegran in Swedish, classified as a barrträd, a needle tree. It can live for over 2000 years. Other names for the yew tree in Swedish are barrlind, barlind, bärlind, balind, balders lind and id. Lind translates to linden or basswood in english.
@@TheLoopyOrangeLady the tree in old Uppsala that was a "stand in" for yggdrasil was described as green all year round, which an ash tree never would be in the swedish climate even if it might be possible else where. So that's another argument for it being a yew tree. And since they can grow to be over 2000 years old, I can see how that would be a strong symbol for life. Especially as it was commonly used for bows and other life sustaining tools.
I can't think of anyone in the world who has a better brow furrow than Dr. Crawford.
That joke about Mimir was whole had me in stiches
I realised the 9 worlds weren't planets when I started reading the sagas. They're countries.
Well, i search a lot the protogermanic reconstruction of the word "Drasill".
*drops Ymir joke
*most satisfied smile ever
Nice and informative video Dr. 👍Yggdrasil has always been a fascinating concept in Norse Mythology.
In scandinavian languages "sky" and "heaven" is the same word - himmel. So its not certain that the upper part of the tree is in heaven, it can be just in the sky.
ugh thats sick dude
Jackson is actually one of the last of the æsir.
I find it intriguing how the cosmology in Norse mythology appears like a mixture of contradicting concepts. A lot of the stuff sounds very down to earth, for instance how so many things in the arfterlife sound like something from actual day-to-day living. But at the same time much of it also sounds like a trippy cosmic horror story.
The way I imagine the Nine Worlds...is that they are Dimensions that are tied together by Yggdrasil. The Tree serving as an Axis Mundi.
Might the third root pass through both heaven and hell? Implying the two are closely linked?
Good old Snorri
The best part of this video is his forehead over the text!
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Which well is used to sprinkle water on the tree?
Sorry I rewatched it and got it
What if you threw an icelandic accent ontop of the wording? I know that sounds weird, but I wanna know how it'd sound.
I think I know where you would go if you had a time machine
I can speak swedish and understand scandinavian languages, so i alsmost can understand what is going on here😊
Could it be refering to just the sky when you say the fourth root is in Heaven? Himinn can mean either.
"ok bíta barr..." = og bider barken = and bites/eats the bark. Maybe?
Norns sprinle holy water on the tree to stop it rotting and decaying.
What would make the tree rot?
Ni ansa: one of its roots is in a poisoned well surrounded by serpents and worms.
Just trying to figure out who would hit the dislike button on this content..
Probably one of the Snorri-haters.
My question is - old norse texts - weren't these supposed to be SUNG? I'm not asking you to sing them, but are we missing a vital element of the experience of these words?
Poetry? Maybe, maybe not. Snorri's prose? Certainly not.
It sounds like Russian.