Just found your writings, love how thorough and clear you are with comparing everything to the sources.
Just a thought: while 3 roots of Yggdrasil are mentioned, does it specify there are NOT more than 3? Perhaps there were many more known in other stories that are now lost.
It does not specifically say there are “only” three, but there are also no surviving sources giving us a reason to think there are any more than the three mentioned. We can always speculate about what might have been included in lost information, but unfortunately we can only draw conclusions based on what has actually survived :)
Just found your writings, love how thorough and clear you are with comparing everything to the sources.
Just a thought: while 3 roots of Yggdrasil are mentioned, does it specify there are NOT more than 3? Perhaps there were many more known in other stories that are now lost.
It does not specifically say there are “only” three, but there are also no surviving sources giving us a reason to think there are any more than the three mentioned. We can always speculate about what might have been included in lost information, but unfortunately we can only draw conclusions based on what has actually survived :)