Everything about The Sacred Tree At Uppsala totally explained
The
Sacred tree at Uppsala was a
sacred tree located at the
Temple at Uppsala,
Sweden, in the second half of the
11th century. It isn't known what species it was, but a scholar has suggested that it was a
yew tree.
It is even more sparsely documented than the famous temple by which it stood. In the
1070s, the writer of a
scholium in
Adam of Bremen's
Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum explained:
The description of the tree and the location of a well nearby are reminiscent of the evergreen,
Yggdrasil, which stood above the
Well of Urd, and it's possible that the Swedes consciously had created a copy of the world of their Norse gods at Uppsala.
The later
Icelandic source,
Hervarar saga, contains a description of how the tree was used in the pagan rites, concerning an event taking place only a few years after the scholium was written. It is in reference to the ancient
Indo-European ritual of
horse sacrifice:
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