Caption: An image from Northern Antiquities (1847), an English translation of the Prose Edda (c.1300--c.1600).
The image is a 19th century attempt to illustrate the Norse cosmology: i.e., mythical cosmology of the Norsemen.
Many pre-spherical-Earth mythical cosmologies may have had a similar structure---a flat Earth (with land and ocean), a dome of the sky (norse version), and an underworld.
Norse cosmology has some optional features: Yggdrasil (the world tree), Joermungandr (the Midgard serpent), and Bifrost (the rainbow bridge).
Credit/Permission:
Oluf Olufsen Bagge (1780--1836),
1847
(uploaded to Wikipedia
by User:Helios,
2006) /
Public domain.
Image link: Wikipedia:
File:Yggdrasil.jpg.
Local file: local link: cosmos_norse_yggdrasil.html.
File: Ancient Astronomy file:
cosmos_norse_yggdrasil.html.