Asgard (As`gard) , the garden or heaven of the Asen or gods in the Norse mythology, in which each had a separate dwelling, and who held intercourse with the other spheres of existence by the bridge Bifröst, i.e. the rainbow.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
As`cot * Asgill, John