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Originally Posted by Alcarillo
Norse mythology had something like that. The separate worlds hung on the great tree Yggdrasil, so that Middle-earth, Midgård, was litterally in the middle, between all the other worlds, progressively getting worse on the way down the tree and better on the way up. Please correct me if I'm wrong, Nordic members of the Downs. The worlds were on a tree, no?
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Thats correct all nine worlds was on Yggdrasi.
In old english Middel-Earth was called middanġeard, later midden-erd or middel-erd
These are the same word as Midgard.
The word Mediterranean comes from two Latin stems, medi, middle, and terra, earth.