Editing Yggdrasil (section)

===Mímameiðr, Hoddmímis holt, and Ragnarök===
[[File:Líf and Lífthrasir by Lorenz Frølich.svg|thumb|Lífþrasir and Líf after emerging from Hoddmímis holt (1895) by [[Lorenz Frølich]]]]
Connections have been proposed between the wood [[Hoddmímis holt]] ([[Old Norse]] "Hoard-[[Mímir]]'s"{{sfn|Simek|2007|p=154}} [[Woodland|holt]]) and the tree [[Mímameiðr]] ("Mímir's tree"), generally thought to refer to the world tree Yggdrasil, and the spring [[Mímisbrunnr]].{{sfn|Simek|2007|p=154}} John Lindow concurs that ''Mímameiðr'' may be another name for Yggdrasil and that if the Hoard-Mímir of the name ''Hoddmímis holt'' is the same figure as [[Mímir]] (associated with the spring named after him, Mímisbrunnr), then the Mímir's holt—Yggdrasil—and Mímir's spring may be within the same proximity.{{sfn|Lindow|2001|p=179}}

Carolyne Larrington notes that it is nowhere expressly stated what will happen to Yggdrasil during the events of [[Ragnarök]]. Larrington points to a connection between the primordial figure of [[Mímir]] and Yggdrasil in the poem ''[[Völuspá]]'', and theorizes that "it is possible that Hoddmimir is another name for Mimir, and that the [[Líf and Lífþrasir|two survivors]] hide in Yggdrasill."{{sfn|Larrington|1999|p=269}}

[[Rudolf Simek]] theorizes that the survival of [[Líf and Lífþrasir]] through Ragnarök by hiding in Hoddmímis holt is "a case of reduplication of the anthropogeny, understandable from the cyclic nature of the Eddic eschatology". Simek says that Hoddmímis holt "should not be understood literally as a wood or even a forest in which the two keep themselves hidden, but rather as an alternative name for the world-tree Yggdrasill. Thus, the creation of humanity from tree trunks (Askr, Embla) is repeated after the Ragnarǫk as well." Simek says that in [[Germanic peoples|Germanic regions]], the concept of humanity originating from trees is ancient. Simek additionally points out legendary parallels in a [[Bavaria]]n legend of a [[shepherd]] who lives inside a tree, whose descendants repopulate the land after life there has been wiped out by plague (citing a retelling by F. R. Schröder). In addition, Simek points to an Old Norse parallel in the figure of [[Örvar-Oddr]], "who is rejuvenated after living as a tree-man (''Ǫrvar-Odds saga'' 24–27)".{{sfnm|1a1=Simek|1y=2007|1p=189|2a1=Schröder|2y=1931}}