07 January 2021 - Yggdrasil

07.01.2020

Nice day. Not too much energy, but just enough. Realised I had a wrong training session on monday and skipped a few. So today I'm returning back to the lighter weights.

Deadlift

Warmup

160*3 overhand

207 - 2 sets of 3

228 - 3 sets of 1

222 for 1 - hook grip.

Wanted to do some light daedlifts in a touch&go manner, but the bar kept turning to the wrong directions in my hands, since it's bent. Did some squats 70*10, and that was it.

In between deadlift sets I managed to do some drumming - finally tried out the "raised foot" technique. My drum throne is really small, but it felt okay after I managed to find the balance. I think I can be pretty fast now. But I'm not going to be making and large purchases (like double pedal) any time soon, because I'm saving up money to buy a better PC, hoping to do it next month.

The song that I'm currently working on has a work title "Yggdrasil:, I think I was randomly inspired with something, I can't remember. I think i heard lyrics in my head and could only make out "Yggdrasil". Yesterday I searched for some specific info about it. Really curious thing.

    "G. Vigfusson and York Powell (Corpus Poeticum Boreale, Oxford, 1883) see in Yggdrasil not a primitive Norse idea, but one due to early contact with Christianity, and a fanciful adaptation of the cross." - link

The Tree Yggdrasil

    Allfather next created a huge ash called Yggdrasil, the tree of the universe, of time, or of life, which filled all the world, taking root not only in the remotest depths of Nifl-heim, where bubbled the spring Hvergelmir, but also in Midgard, near Mimir's well (the ocean), and in Asgard, near the Urdar fountain.
    From its three great roots the tree attained such a marvellous height that its topmost bough, called Lerad (the peace-giver), overshadowed Odin's hall, while the other wide-spreading branches towered over the other worlds. An eagle was perched on the bough Lerad, and between his eyes sat the falcon Vedfolnir, sending his piercing glances down into heaven, earth, and Nifl-heim, and reporting all that he saw.
    As the tree Yggdrasil was ever gree, its leaves never withering, it served as pasture-ground not only for Odin's goat Heidrun, which supplied the heavenly mead, the drink of the gods, but also for the stags Dain, Dvalin, Duneyr, and Durathor, from whose horns honey-dew dropped down uopon the earth and furnished the water for all the rivers in the world.
    In the seething cauldron Hvergelmir, close by the great tree, a horrible dragon, called Nidhug, continually gnawed the roots, and was helped in his work of destruction by countless worms, whose aim it was to kill the tree, knowing that its death would be the signal for the downfall of the gods.

"Through all our life a tempter prowls malignant,      The cruel Nidhug from the world below.  He hates that asa-light whose rays benignant      On th' hero's brow and glitt'ring sword bright glow."

Viking Tales of the North (R. B. Anderson).

    Scampering continually up and down the branches and truck of the tree, the squirrel Ratatosk (branch-borer), the typical busybody and tale-bearer, passed its time repeating to the dragon below the remarks of the eagle above, and vise versa, in the hope of stirring up strife between them.

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