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Yggdrasil: Roots
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Three pools well up between Yggdrasil's roots. It is the only water for many miles. When you have hunted hard from first light it is good to come into camp under Yggdrasil and get a Tusker beer. Your camp boy keeps the beer in the deepest pool. When he hands it to you the bottle is cold and beaded with water.
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In the final phase of their growth, the Yggdrasil bushes alter their biochemistry to maintain and support the newly created atmosphere. Symbiotic soil gardening organisms and other basic elements are budded off of the bush root system generating a self-sustaining ecosystem. Starting from a single
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This is the first recording of Bergen-based folk quintet Yggdrasil. The group cut its teeth playing Balkan folk tunes, but then settled on performing Norwegian and Swedish roots music. The songs on Herrelaus are mostly drawn from the Norwegian and Swedish tradition, but one can still occasionally hear the Balkan influence, especially in the presence and use of instruments like the tuba and clarinet. The Balkan imprint is most obvious on "Balkanspringar," a springar (a three-beat Norwegian dance) composed by Norwegian fiddler Håkon Asheim, which features Balkanesque clarinet.
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Malevolent demons constantly schemed to destroy Yggdrasil. The serpent Nidhogg, lurked under the third root and gnawed at it ceaselessly. Four stags wandered among its foliage and chewed off all the buds, later becoming the fall winds, creating winds upon earthly lands. Their efforts to remove the buds were never fast enough as new ones would grow at each moment, thanks to the care and attention of the Norns.
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