Yggdrasil. See SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. According to Vigfusson and Powell (Corpus Poeticum Boreale, 1883), Yggdrasil is not a primitive Scandinavian idea, but originating after the contact with Christianity, and so a corruption of the cross.
Yggdrasil.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 779
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