Tree of Salvation: Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North

by G. Ronald Murphy

Winner of the 2014 Mythopoeic Myth & Fantasy Studies Award

At the heart of the mythology of the Anglo-Scandinavian-Germanic North is the evergreen Yggdrasil, the tree of life believed to hold up the skies and unite and separate three worlds: Asgard, high in the tree, where the gods dwelled in their great halls; Middlegard, where human beings lived; and the dark underground world of Hel, home to the monstrous goddess of death...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199948615
• ISBN13: 9780199948611
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.4"