However, the word translates into English as вЂњStorm PaleвЂќ or вЂњWind Bleached.вЂќ Vedfolnir trades insults rather vicariously with the dragon Nidhogg, who, as we said is located at YggdrasilвЂ™s third root in Niflheim. This limb of Yggdrasil is known as Lerad. This branch, like many things in Norse mythology, had a name. Vedfolnir was a hawk that sat in-between the eyes of an unnamed Eagle at the top of the highest branch on Yggdrasil.

He then remarks on the integrity of the Yggdrasil, calling it the noblest of all trees. He describes an Eagle, A Squirrel, Four Deer, and a Hawk. Odin then famously says that вЂњ Yggdrasil suffers more agony than any man knows.вЂќДespite the majority of wretched beings described above, Odin also speaks of many creatures who live upon the World Tree. The latter, Odin claims, will forever do damage to Yggdrasil by constant gnawing. Under Yggrasil there is the Ditch Wolf, the Greyback, the One Ruling in the Ditch, the Twisting One, the One Who Puts to Death. I have purposely left out their old Norse names and transalted them to make more sense of who they are. Odin then then goes on to say that more serpents exist underneath Yggdrasil вЂњthan any fool can imagine.вЂќ Mankind, he says, has an abode under the third.

Underneath the second are a multitude of frost Jotnar. Odin describes that Hel lives under the first root of Yggdrasil.

How many creatures of Yggdrasil are there? In the poem known as the GrГmnismГЎl, Odin speaks of many creatures who have made Yggdrasil their home.

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