THE SACRED MOUNTAIN ASH
TpHE Celts and Germans and Scandin- 1 avians worshipped the mountain ash. It is especially in the religious { myths of the Scandinavians that the ( "Askr Yggdrasil” plays a prominent i pant. To them it was the holiest among j trees, the "world tree” which, etem-j ally young and dewy, represented' heaven, earth and hell. ! According to the Edda, the mountain! ash was an evergreen tree. A specimen j of it grew at Upsula, in, front of the
I great temple, and another in Dithmarsciien. c& ref Lily guarded by a railing, j for it was, ir a mythical way, connected with the fate of the country, i When Dithmarschen lost its liberty ! the tree withered, but a magpie, one j of the best prophesying birds of the ! north, arrived and built its nest on the ! withered tree, and hatched five little I ones, all perfectly white. This- wa? j taken .as a sign that at some time the country would regain its former liberty.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 10 June 1933, Page 14
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