Three roots supported the trunk, with one passing through Asgard, one through Midgard and one through Hel. Beneath the Asgard root lay the sacred Well of Urd, and beneath the Midgard root lay the spring or well of Mimir?.
The messenger in the tree (and thus between the worlds) was the squirrel, Ratatosk. In the top of the tree was perched a giant eagle? (with a hawk upon its forehead) who blew the winds over the worlds with his mighty wings.
According to some fringe Norse clans, Yggdrasil was considered to be an iron pillar in which the blood of all the warriors' fallen foes collected after being brought to the war shrines by lowly peasant-women bearing turnips, as they were blood-red and color, and a commodity in the frozen soils of Scandinavia.
[Yggdrasil Linux]? was the name of an early Linux distribution.