Chapter 4: The World Tree Of Destiny's Child And Mean Girls
"Hey Magnus! Nice knowing about all the different realms and whatever, but what about the world tree?"
Well dear reader, as you may know the cosmic world tree is called Yggdrasil. A name I can actually pronounce, but not so sure about the spelling though. The tree, an ash tree for your information, stretches across all the nine worlds, above and beneath the heavens. It is eternally green and also called the tree of life. Yggdrasil is carried by three enormous roots, the first which is in Asgard. By this root the asgardians have a well called Urd's well, where they held daily meetings. The three norns lives by the well, Urd (past) Verdani (present) and Skuld (future), and as you may guess they are the goddesses of fate. They spin threads of life and can decide the fate of every human, animal and god. Step aside Odin, Vili and Ve, the Destiny's Child of norse mythology is coming through. So think twice before you tempt the fates by uttering the words "at least it can't get any worse than this" because they're gonna go "lmao who's gonna tell 'em?".
These creepy ladies also got their own pet, a rooster, which they place on top of Yggdrasil every morning to wake up all mortals and gods with a "Cock-a-doodle-doo it's fate suckers!"
They would then carry water from the well to pour over their root of the world tree, in order to keep it green and healthy. Unlike some others, who were too busy destroying the tree (keep reading).
But one good thing to know, is that the norns loves porridge. So good news to all you porridge-haters, you are now justified to throw the porridge in the fire and shout "for the norns!".
The second root of Yggdrasil is down in Jotunheim, where Mimir's well is. The third goes all the way down to Niflheim, by the well Hverg...g… Hvergemlilirmi…. Hvergemlir, which I mentioned in the first chapter, where the eleven rivers called Elivagar comes from (that shaped the world by creating a giant called Ymir bla bla). By this well lives a dragon, Nidhug, gnawing of the root of the cosmic tree and living of the blood from dead people. Huh, my middle-school teacher could make a living like that. But I don't know, maybe he need hug.
At the very top of Yggdrasil lives an eagle, and the bitter enemy of Nidhug. And this is where the evil takes a squirrel form in Ratatosk. Trust me on this one, if you ever get the wonderful idea of climbing the world tree, don't. If you'll have to face Ratatosk, it's over. Its only purpose in life is to carry gossip and shit-talking between the two rivals, driving them into destroying the world tree from above and below. Ratatosk was Gossip Girl before it was cool and Regina George's first incarnation.