Tears of Yggdrasil

Tears of Yggdrasil is a 4:02 Mythic Harmonies song in English that gives the Norse world-tree its own sorrow. Roots whisper of ash, fire and cold; tears cross creation; the Norns weave; leaves remember; and a final kneeling voice imagines life and death flowing through the tree’s veins.

Watch the complete master above. Spotify and Apple Music carry the matching 4:01 release. This is a contemporary mythic folk composition, not a surviving Viking Age hymn: medieval sources establish Yggdrasil, its strain, roots and the Norns’ care, while divine tears, hero-blood, remembered speech and the tree’s first-person-like voice belong to the song.

Tears of Yggdrasil at a Glance

Artist	Mythic Harmonies
Song	Tears of Yggdrasil
YouTube master	4:02
Spotify / Apple Music	4:01
Language	English
Core image	The world-tree weeping while creation and memory move through it
Status	Original modern composition

What Is Tears of Yggdrasil About?

The opening moves upward from roots to branches, then lets Yggdrasil weep. The chorus widens those tears from sky to creation, spirits, stone and passing ages. A second verse places the Norns beside human love, hate and heroic death. The bridge turns to direct address: listeners kneel beneath the tree, hear its voice and imagine the whole world continuing through its tears.

The song’s arc is cosmic roots → falling tears → fate and memory → human reverence → endurance. It does not narrate one Eddic episode. Instead, it combines several documented Yggdrasil motifs with an original emotional premise: what if the structure holding the mythic world could grieve for everything it witnesses?

Yggdrasil’s Suffering in Grímnismál

The song’s sorrow has a genuine textual starting point. Grímnismál 35 says the ash of Yggdrasil suffers more than people know: a stag bites above, its side decays and Niðhǫggr gnaws beneath. Nearby stanzas name four stags feeding from the tree and more serpents below it. Edward Pettit’s open-access Poetic Edda gives the Old Norse and English together.

The poem supports a strained, continually damaged tree. It does not call the moisture “tears,” say the resin flows from pain or explain Niðhǫggr’s action as a simple plan to kill the cosmos. Those are interpretive steps. Tears of Yggdrasil deliberately turns physical affliction into a voice of grief.

Does Yggdrasil Connect Nine Realms?

Vǫluspá mentions “nine worlds” and Yggdrasil’s famous tree, while Grímnismál and Snorri describe roots, wells, divine meeting places and beings around the ash. Yet the surviving texts do not provide the familiar modern infographic of nine named realms arranged as fixed nodes on nine branches.

It is fair to call Yggdrasil a world-tree whose branches spread over the world and whose roots reach foundational regions. “Axis mundi” can be a useful modern comparative label, but it is not the tree’s Old Norse title. The song’s “roots of the world” is poetic language, not a cartographic claim.

The Norns and the Care of the Tree

Snorri’s Gylfaginning places Urðr, Verðandi and Skuld by Urðarbrunnr. It says the Norns take water and clay from the well and pour it over the ash so that its branches do not wither or decay. This is the strongest source parallel for the song’s union of fate, water and endurance.

The lyric then adds its own work: the Norns “weave” the dreams of people, hero-blood feeds the roots and leaves remember speech. Norse poetry uses textile images for fate in particular scenes, but no cited passage combines all three claims into a universal mechanism inside Yggdrasil. Anthony Faulkes’s Viking Society edition of Gylfaginning lets readers check what the prose actually says.

Will Yggdrasil Survive Ragnarök?

Vǫluspá says Yggdrasil trembles as the old order breaks. Vafþrúðnismál says Líf and Lífþrasir survive in Hoddmímis holt and live on morning dew. The poem does not explicitly identify that wood as Yggdrasil, so the common equation is an interpretation rather than a certainty.

The sources therefore support survival and renewal without giving a simple statement that fire burns every realm while Yggdrasil itself definitely remains untouched. The song’s closing “through your tears, the world remains” is its own answer: endurance through grief.

How the Recording Creates the Tree’s Voice

The long vocal lines and repeated title make the chorus feel like a slow current. Low percussion supplies weight without turning the track into a battle march, while layered atmosphere gives the roots-and-branches imagery room to expand. The final reduced phrase—“Tears… of Yggdrasil…”—leaves the central image unresolved rather than ending with a historical claim.

Those are observations about this recording. The instruments and arrangement are not presented as a reconstruction of music performed at sacred groves, and the pulse is not evidence of sap moving through a mythic tree.

Where This Fiche Fits

This page owns the exact Tears of Yggdrasil intent: the English 4:02 master, divine-tears refrain, Norns, hero-blood, remembered leaves and verified platforms. Undir Asku Yggdrasils remains a separate Old Norse-styled female lament in which roots hold one fallen warrior’s memory. The Music catalogue is the discovery hub; this fiche answers only for this recording.

Tears of Yggdrasil Lyrics

The complete released English text is reproduced below without alteration.

Roots of the world, so deep, so old, Whispers of ash, of fire, of cold. Branches reach where stars align, Yggdrasil weeps, with tears divine.

Tears of Yggdrasil, falling from the sky, Echoes of creation, where the spirits lie. Tears of Yggdrasil, sorrow carved in stone, Flowing through the ages, never left alone.

Norns are weaving, threads of fate, Dreams of men, both love and hate. Blood of heroes, roots have fed, Leaves remember what was said.

Tears of Yggdrasil, falling from the sky, Echoes of creation, where the spirits lie. Tears of Yggdrasil, sorrow carved in stone, Flowing through the ages, never left alone.

Beneath your shade, we kneel in fear, Ancient tree, your voice we hear. Life and death within your veins, Through your tears, the world remains.

Tears of Yggdrasil, falling from the sky, Echoes of creation, where the spirits lie. Tears of Yggdrasil, sorrow carved in stone, Flowing through the ages, never left alone.

Tears… of Yggdrasil… Forever they flow.

Listen on Spotify and Apple Music

Stream the verified 4:01 release on Spotify or Apple Music. Find the complete catalogue of released words in the Songbook.

Sources and Editorial Method

• Edward Pettit, The Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language Edition, especially Vǫluspá, Grímnismál 29–35 and Vafþrúðnismál 45.
• Anthony Faulkes (ed.), Snorri Sturluson: Edda. Prologue and Gylfaginning.
• Recording identity checked against YouTube `iJ9xAqjSDMw`, Spotify `1swd5DPaieNHjQXyGXYl0F` and Apple Music `1849247006`.

Editorial note: the sources establish the ash, its suffering, its care and its mythic setting. The tears, voice, hero-blood and remembered speech are openly modern poetic images.

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