 The description of the tree and the location of a well nearby are reminiscent of the evergreen Yggdrasil, which stood above the Well of Urd, and it is possible that the Swedes consciously had created a copy of the world of their Norse gods at Uppsala.The later Icelandic source "Hervarar saga" contains a description of how the tree was used in the pagan rites, concerning an event taking place only a few years after the scholium was written.It is in reference to the ancient Indo-European ritual of horse sacrifice