What is the name of the squirrel who carries messages up and down 'Yggdrasil', the world tree of Norse mythology?
Red squirrel mammal as the islands are free of predators such as foxes, and of the squirrel pox carrying grey squirrel. Squirrel Nutkin is a character, always illustrated as a red squirrel, in English author Beatrix Potter's books for children. 'Ekorren' (The Squirrel) is a well known and appreciated children's song in Sweden. Text and lyrics by Alice Tegnér in 1892. In Norse mythology, Ratatoskr is a red squirrel who runs up and down with messages in the world tree, Yggdrasil, and spreads gossip. In particular, he carried messages between the unnamed eagle at the top of Yggdrasill and the wyrm Níðhöggr
Yggdrasil stanza 138 of the poem "Hávamál", Odin describes how he once sacrificed himself to himself by hanging on a tree. The stanza reads: In the stanza that follows, Odin describes how he had no food nor drink there, that he peered downward, and that "I took up the runes, screaming I took them, then I fell back from there." While Yggdrasil is not mentioned by name in the poem and other trees exist in Norse mythology, the tree is near universally accepted as Yggdrasil, and if the tree is Yggdrasil, then the name "Yggdrasil" directly relates to this story. In