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>Nine is the number of worlds beneath Misty Hel (Vafþrúðnismál)

>Ninth is the heaven ruled by Freyia, Fólkvangr (Grímnismál)

>Nine, or three by nine, is the number of valkyriur riding together (Helgakviða I, II & H. Hiǫrvarðssonar)

>Nine is the number of nights that Woden hung on the tree (Hávamál)

>Nine is the number of nights that Hermóðr spent riding down to Hel (Snorri)

>Nine is the number of nights that Skírnir rode down to the death-realm of Gerðr (Skírnismál)

>Nine is the number of nights that Yngve must wait before he can meet Gerðr in the breezeless grove (Skírnismál)

>Nine is the number of spellsongs that Woden received when he hung

>Nine is the number of spellsongs that Woden made himself (Hávamál)

>Nine is the number of spellsongs that Gróa sang from her grave (Gróagaldr)

>Nine is the number of maidens seated beneath the Tree of Memory on the Mountain of Medicine (Fjölsvinnsmál)

Iit's better to think about it as thrice three because three is the truly important number. Three is the number of manifestation.

1 is primordial masculine-feminine, but it is indivisible and complete. 2 is primordial masculine and feminine and is divisible, but only to one. 3 is 1 reborn, but it is the first "manifested" number, the number of the "world of multiplicity." Thrice three encompasses being.

It is also a lunar number, and we reside in the sublunar realm. 9*3 days in a sidereal month, or 3*3*3. there are also nine stations in the heavens; the seven planets and the two lunar nodes. All of being is encompassed by nine, the cycle repeats itself after this, but by a higher degree.

Nine is deeply related to digital roots. it is a sort of "seed number." the digital root of any number that equals nine is divisible by nine. the digital root of any number that is not nine is the remainder after dividing by nine.