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===Cosmology===
In Icelandic and Norse based Germanic neopaganism there are "[[nine worlds]]" <ref>Völuspá 2</ref><ref>Vafþrúðnismál 43</ref><ref>Gylfaginning 34</ref>, and a "World Tree" known as [[Yggdrasil]] is the axis of this reality. A complete list of the nine worlds is never mentioned entirely, in any source, but these worlds are identified [[Poetic Edda]] or younger [[Prose Edda]]:
 
:* '''[[Ásgarðr]]''', world of the [[Æsir]]. (Poetic<ref>Hymiskviða 6</ref> and Prose<ref>Gylfaginning 2</ref>)