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It comes down to a few different things:

1. Freya's far from infallible. Her being incredibly wrong about what was best for Baldr kicks off Ragnarok entirely, and she was also wrong about Surtr being the only one who could use Hrimthur's Flaw. I'd say this is the weakest point against it.

2. Freya is quoting philosophical teachings. Note how the entire section is structured, not just the "transcending time, transcending space" line:

"The Tree of Life is bound to the fate of the world, just as we are bound to it. The tree nourishes our soils. The dew from its leaves feeds our valleys and rivers. The tree’s very existence supports all of creation along its boughs its life energy interwoven into the tapestry of life… birth, growth, death, and rebirth… every strand, transcending time, transcending space. Everything comes back to the tree. So… that’s how it works. But I’m guessing you were looking for a more practical answer."

She's not referring to anything interstellar. She's referring to the cycle of life as we know it on Earth. And she's right in a literal sense, in that leaving Yggdrasil leaves one to be torn apart by the Realm Between Realms, but it's not a practical answer. She's not dealing entirely in literal language. The Vanir were taught by the Jotnar, and Angrboda expands on this when she writes about her parents and their passing: https://youtu.be/xVNLfUgsMTU?si=196oFtg7NRJ25ihs&t=317

3. Yggdrasil is bound to the fate of the world, a space and a time, as the world is to it. How is it transcending the world if that's the case? Maybe recursive infinite dimensional transcendence...