Iggdrasil the Tree of Existence, as conceived of by the Norse, and reflecting the Norse idea of the universe, “has its roots deep down in the kingdoms of Hela, or Death; its trunk reaches up heaven-high, and spreads its boughs over the whole universe. At the foot of it, in the Death-Kingdom, sit the Three Nornas (q.v.) watering its roots from the sacred Well.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
If * Ignatieff, Nicholas