All hail the Oak King! Thanks for your educational video. Lovely location. I too have an Oak tree in my yard in tropical Southeast Florida, his name is King Henry the 7th - at least that's what he told me!😊 I always honor the Oak and Holly Kings at Summer Solstice, and the faeries join in the revelry, of course! King Henry has lots of animals that live in his branches and he helps keep my house and yard cool. I truly appreciate him.
Woah! An oak can manage in tropical Florida? That blows my mind. What a regal visitor! Also, what a fantastic name. He seems like quite a character. All hail king Henry the 7th! 🌳 👑
@@TheStoryCrow yes there are many species of Oak. Ours here in sunny Ft Lauderdale is Quercus virginiana, Southern Live Oak. I'm a native landscaper and am lucky enough to be able to play with the plants all the time.
@@TheStoryCrow Indeed, there are many species of Oak that thrive all over Florida and the East Coast of the US. As another poster mentioned, the "Live Oak" is the quintessential symbol of the Deep South. They can become absolutely massive and several hundred years old. The wood is incredibly durable, as well. The USS Constitution was a frigate clad in Live Oak and nicknamed "Old Ironsides" because British cannon balls would literally just bounce off the hull during the War of 1812. It also grows in twisty/serpentine shapes which has made it prized by wooden boat builders for centuries, dating back to the early Spanish settlers, then later the English. It's also quite rot resistant, as well. The trouble is that it's very difficult to mill to uniforms sizes and shapes, at an industrial level, which has been its saving grace from being over harvested. Just found your channel and getting caught up, now. Cheers!
Greetings from Romania.🤗 For us, the oak is a powerful symbol of our ancestors, the Getae people from the big Thracian family. Thank you for the beautiful and instructive stories presented with a special, bohemian charm. Good luck! May the Great Creator keep you healthy and strong as an oak, and cheerful as a spring bird.
I got a very large smile on my face seeing you talk of your friendship with this Oak. It is always a delight to see others who form friendships with the trees. I would love to see you do the Hawthorn!
I enjoy these videos so much. Oak was one of the first trees I learned about as a kid. Intereating fact about oak. You can use older oak leaves to dye fabric. I made my neice a deer doll using them with alittle bit of alum ( I found it in the spice section of the grocery store.) if you were to add nails to it, You get a pretty dark color. Also, you can make bread from the acorns. You just have let them soak in water until the tannins wash away. Some will put them in the river, Some will even put them in the back of their toilet tanks for a few weeks😅. When they lose their color, you can process it into a flour. Thank you for the video. ❤
I’m so glad to hear this. I love that you dyed a deer with oak bark tannin. I meant to talk about oak bread. Probably the most important foodstuff in Europe before farming. Not sure about putting it in the toilet tank though 😅
I'm part of a conservation effort for the longest continuous oak avenue in the souther hemisphere here in my home town of Potchefstroom, Northwest ,South-africa I spent today cataloging and inspecting 103 oak trees, out of 913 They are really amazing trees
13:35 Pole here, and yes, oak is the world tree in slavic mythologies. Also it's the tree of Perun, who is a god of thunder and in many cases is considered the king of the gods.
I know this is an older video, but I only came upon your channel recently, and I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your content. Aside from my own hunger for good pagan info and storytelling, I'm writing a Solarpunk novel set in England, Italy and Ireland, and as it's harder for me to visit (I live in Italy), your videos of walking the Ridgeway have been really great. I'm especially interested in any links you have with Brighid :)
Thanks. I’d never heard of solarpunk. I presume it’s the new steampunk and more.. erm. Environmentally conscious 😂 New ridgeway video soon. And I’ll be doing another Brigid vid in the new year. There’s one up there somewhere already. Good luck with your writing. I love Italy 🍝
What took the algorithm so long!?!?! You are amazing!!! I'm systematically watching it all. I had been looking at equinox and solstice traditions and having a hard time pinning down the history and folklore. I really appreciate your eclectic storytelling style as it gives me many different avenues to research for more connections. I'm a botany nerd so love hearing about the plant histories.
I live in the village of St Neot in Cornwall where we celebrate oak apple day when a branch of local oak is hauled up to the church turret and remains there for the year.
Thank you for the lovely stories. In Bulgarian traditions the oak also have significant role. The spelling of the name read backwards means "future", so on summer solstices they cut a piece of wood (log), which they throw in the fire on Charismas (it is not Charismas in Bulgarian traditions) and the way it burns is used the predict what will happen the coming year.
So nice following many your stories elsewhere .. its good that English Irish Scots etc. can share without strife and nod to your being Pagan.. takes one to know one :) Bother na coillte Molaim duit
The way of the woods. I like that. Thank you for your comments my friend. I’ve always found there so much more to connect the people of these islands than divides them. The similarity of so many of the old ways being just one example. Humour probably being another.
I am so enjoying your videos! Of particular interest are the folklore and myth talks about plants and trees. I have shared your videos with friends here in Canada.
Thank you for spreading the word. I’m very fond of Canadians. Such a beautiful country. I’ll keep making more videos about tree and plant lore alongside myth and story. ☺️🌳🌲🙏
Great video, like always! Also, I'm a little jealous that you got to grow up in such an amazing place. An iron age settlement? Wow! I'm thousands of miles away and that fires up my imagination all the way over here. I can't imagine how fantastic it would be to grow up right there!
Very interesting - thank you! The Oak it seems to me, is very special to England. Holding a very powerful tradition in France (Gaul) and Germany as well. Charlemagne in 772 destroyed the trees, the oak, and grove, at the sacred site: Irminsul, venerated by the Saxon Tribes in Germany. A church later build on the site by Pope Leo III. The Saxons, angry, devastated, fought on for years. Perhaps it was the Saxons who brought this veneration to England. Here in Ireland, it was not so much the Oak, but the Yew - Hazel - and Mountain Ash / Rowan trees that were deemed sacred by the Druids and others.
Fab love oak trees I planted one with my daughter when she was 3. She is now 7 it’s in a big pot. I’ve tried to give it to local forests but no reply. 😢 so for now it’s my duty to care for it and I love it x
Thank you for another gloriously magical and inspiring video! You most certainly do have viewers in the US, and this one is writing a note of thanks to you from distant Portland, Oregon, (another place that is mercifully rich in trees and forests.)
A little note on the origin of Duir, as in Irish and Derw, as in Welsh: Proto Indo-European (PIE) suggests the word Daru as meaning ‘tree’. In Slavic languages we see this morpheme; derevo in Russian, dereva in Ukrainian etc. We know from history the Druids had a taboo on writing and looking at many of the words for the flora and fauna in Welsh I might suggest that an underlying and related belief informed their style of nomenclature as well. Names of flora and fauna are far less a label on a thing rather a description of them. Often quite poetic. A good example here is glöyn byw, meaning butterfly, translated word-for-word is ‘living light’ or ‘living ember’. They seemed to not want to merely label things. So my guess here is that the oak was so important and significant to them it’s name actually had the meaning of ‘the tree’; the tree of trees what have you.
Good insights, thank you. I’ve heard heard various etymologies for the word, and this one does make a lot of sense for precisely those reasons 🌳🙏 also, didn’t know the Welsh for butterfly, that is beautiful …
@@TheStoryCrow as a Welsh speaker my biggest motivation in the survival of the language is that it is born of a people who venerated nature. The explanation you give about the etymology of the word Druid is true, although it goes deeper still. The -uid element does indeed mean knowledge in Celtic languages, but is also means presence. We can easily see how there may be a double meaning here, as something of presence is something known, perhaps. Gwyddoniaeth (gwydd=knowledge) is the Welsh word for science. However when this morpheme or element is seen in place names it’s translates to meaning something present or obvious. The Welsh word for Snowdon is yr Wyddfa which would mean the present place translated directly. It’s un mutated form would be Gwyddfa (the G is dropped when you had yr=the before the name itself) So another etymology to consider as well as one who ‘knows the oak’ might be one who is ‘present with the tree’. Just a thought. This absolute reverence the people of Britain once had for their environment and nature is written into the dna of the Welsh language. A reminder our ancestors lived in an oak covered Eden
I am from across the pond friend. The more i watch your videos, the more I find myself liking you, or your way of telling these tales. I greatly appreciate the knowledge you share w us. Good,good, really good stuff man! Btw, ive subscribed......been binge watching, trying to catch up on your teachings if you will? Ha! Anywho, good day/evening or whatever, until next time. ✌️🖤and🍄 😂
Thank you for a wonderful video, I love the oak😊 I just wanted to comment that we do have oak in Scandinavia, especially in Denmark. But Norway also had a lot of oak back in the day. A lot were cut to make ships and such, and spruce took over. But they are still here. In Denmark there are many oaks, they have similar climate as in England. I think the story about Lindeormen is danish, so it makes sense. I often carry acorns in my pocket, I didn't know it was protective though. Love it🌞
Ahh, used to live in Denmark, and thought most of the oaks were British or French imports - like the ones in deer park - but yeah similar climate in Denmark to here. Not quite as warm and moist 😂
@@TheStoryCrowI see:) We still have some oak forest were I live in Norway at least. They are very precious to me. I am planting little oaklings this year also, that I have grown from the acorn :)
Hi Somesh. World folklore is a pretty big subject, but Alan Garner is a brilliant compiler and editor of European and world folklore. I don’t know a book specifically dedicated to the oak, but Max Adam’s ‘the wisdom of trees’ is a great book about European tree folklore, including oak. Good luck! 🌳
I do actually! He’s not for everyone, and takes very much a pragmatic (and chaos) approach to the runes - Jan fries’ Helrunar is excellent if you want to work with runes practically. If you’re after something more academic on Viking age mind and magic generally then ‘the Viking way’ by Neil price is dynamite.
Story Crow. When you studied at bristol university did you ever get to see the jack in the green march? It starts near bristol universities main campus outside of a pub called the green man its utterly delightful
Bristol I treat as my home city, even if I’m not a proper brizzle babber, love the place and the people. Plus I’ve generations of west county seamen standing behind me, so it feels like coming home whenever I visit. When I lived there though I was in my early twenties, so preferred space hacking to balloon festivals (lovely though that spectacle that is). I was probably a bit of a prat really. Exploring the tunnels under the docks was fun. Once I climbed up wills memorial building (when it was scaffolded) and crossed a plank onto the museum, and sat on one of the statues shoulders, so next time your walking by there imagine me sat on the middle one. Stupid thing to do really. It was 4 in the morning and I was intoxicated. 😂
Can’t argue with that I suppose. I mean. He burned quite a lot of people to death in England for .. being catholic, or female, or gobby, or wearing too extravagant a hat, but Ireland definitely came off worse…
I was waiting for someone to notice that 😂 no I just wasn’t paying attention 🫣 I believe pronunciation varies from proto to old to contemporary Irish as well as by region so good luck 😬😆🌳
I do now, that’s great, thanks for that. So obvious once someone points it out! Although I’d argue against any singular association or interpretation, but that there is a great point I hadn’t considered before, cheers! 🙏🌩️
Just one aspect of a truly magnificent tree. The only thing more awe-inspiring is seeing the Oak standing proud with it's ancient friends as described in your other videos. The few scraps of forest we still have are a treasure of immeasurable value. Your stories help us tune into that wonder we almost forgot ☺
I did measure it’s girth once to get an estimate of its age. It came in at a little under 200 years. I thought it would have been older tbh - but then I could have done it wrong, and it’s not an exact science 🌳
I couldn’t really tell you, I imagine they’re broadly similar - like English and European oak. And yeah I’d say conditions make a difference. English oaks are stouter because of the colder and stormier climate
"Sacred Oak Groves" abound all throughout Indo-European myths, and were still in regular use by the Native Peoples of Europe into the 8th century, at least. Boniface's destruction of the Anglo-Saxon, sacred oaks was seen as a formal end to Paganism in that part of Europe.
Probably. A bit like how the English oak is tougher and stouter then the French oak. I hear the shillelagh was traditionally made from Irish oak, given its toughness, but due to its scarcity, blackthorn is used most commonly. I certainly didn’t see much oak last time I was in Ireland. But then I practically live in an oak forest 🌳
Apart from Ireland it grows from Wester Ross down the west coast. Warwickshire so Shakespeares oak? Leafage beats the English oak. The iron works in NW Scotland greatly depleted the Highland woods burnt for charcoal. Saved by the switch to coal/coke.
@@TheStoryCrow Jordan Maxwell had said in a late interview he had an original bible which had "King Druid" in the place of "King David". Tells you a lot.
@ sorry I forgot there’s two trees in the Quran. One is the good tree and the other is the evil tree. The good tree symbolises the whole of Islam. It has firm deep roots that stabilises it against all of life’s tests and difficulties. It has branches which reach up to the sky for…guidance? The evil tree has short roots which cause it to sway in the wind and eventually falls down under its own weight or prolonged tests of wind and rain. All trees are Muslim, meaning they submit to the will of the creator. Some trees can talk, there’s a famous tree the prophet Muhammad stood against that would cry for years because it missed him until the early Muslims cut it down and buried it next to him (to stop the noise). Towards the end of time, which is near (remember that Muhammad is the last of all the messengers of God), all trees (and animals will be able to speak). And most interesting, something I only realised a few weeks ago, there are no trees on the day of judgement (except the evil Tree of Zaqqum) so no shade, no food, no relief. Trees are a sign of Gods presence, love and mercy on earth but those signs are not needed in the next life… Then there’s the most famous tree, “sidratul muntaha” the lote tree, banyan tree or fig tree. It signifies the end of the world and the start of paradise, a divine border if you will. In Islam we say there were over 124,000 messengers of God, only 20 or so mentioned in the Quran. So many wise people say that Buddha, Thor etc could have been one of those messengers but over time their message got distorted by people…
Hiya.. it was a good video until your flip flopping jibba jabba about the round earth...clearly ratlled voice trying to say earth is a globe.. 😅 its fine there is no need f9r you to out yourself as a flat earth person..keep up the great work ❤
So the Puritans [Christians] were whipped with nettles for not showing loyalty to Saturn/Green Man/Odin/Charles over and above the true Oak King Zeus/Thor...
😂 well technically they were all Christians. It was the 1700s. The non puritanical variety still had a lot of the old ways running through it, that’s all. Like a wild garden. The puritans did a hell of a lot of weeding. And burning.
@@scottphillips7108 Well, that was a tad earlier… not really the same practices and beliefs in Iron Age Europe 😅 But yeah. Humans do some strange things in the name of God(s) don’t they? And the wounds can run deep. Generation deep. And we all feel the repercussion don’t we? To be honest mate, I sit here reading your comments and I have nothing but love to you brother, wherever you are. Let’s heal old wounds. Swords into ploughs. Go well on on your path. It would be lovely to meet you someday. Peace 🙏 ✨
It’s remarkable how much the symbol for “door” and “knowledge” resembles a key!
That’s very true, I hadn’t thought of that! Although most of the ogham letters are quite key like - but none so much as Duir 🌳
I hadn't thought of that. I'd always been wondering where us "smart" people got our letter forms and shapes from. Time to research.
All hail the Oak King! Thanks for your educational video. Lovely location. I too have an Oak tree in my yard in tropical Southeast Florida, his name is King Henry the 7th - at least that's what he told me!😊 I always honor the Oak and Holly Kings at Summer Solstice, and the faeries join in the revelry, of course! King Henry has lots of animals that live in his branches and he helps keep my house and yard cool. I truly appreciate him.
Woah! An oak can manage in tropical Florida? That blows my mind. What a regal visitor! Also, what a fantastic name. He seems like quite a character. All hail king Henry the 7th! 🌳 👑
@@TheStoryCrow yes there are many species of Oak. Ours here in sunny Ft Lauderdale is Quercus virginiana, Southern Live Oak. I'm a native landscaper and am lucky enough to be able to play with the plants all the time.
@@janinegriffiths8281 Googling that tree immediately. What a great job you have 👍🌳
@@TheStoryCrow Indeed, there are many species of Oak that thrive all over Florida and the East Coast of the US. As another poster mentioned, the "Live Oak" is the quintessential symbol of the Deep South. They can become absolutely massive and several hundred years old.
The wood is incredibly durable, as well. The USS Constitution was a frigate clad in Live Oak and nicknamed "Old Ironsides" because British cannon balls would literally just bounce off the hull during the War of 1812.
It also grows in twisty/serpentine shapes which has made it prized by wooden boat builders for centuries, dating back to the early Spanish settlers, then later the English. It's also quite rot resistant, as well.
The trouble is that it's very difficult to mill to uniforms sizes and shapes, at an industrial level, which has been its saving grace from being over harvested.
Just found your channel and getting caught up, now. Cheers!
Greetings from Romania.🤗 For us, the oak is a powerful symbol of our ancestors, the Getae people from the big Thracian family. Thank you for the beautiful and instructive stories presented with a special, bohemian charm. Good luck! May the Great Creator keep you healthy and strong as an oak, and cheerful as a spring bird.
This is a great prayer , thank you my friend. I long to visit Romania 🙏✨
I got a very large smile on my face seeing you talk of your friendship with this Oak. It is always a delight to see others who form friendships with the trees.
I would love to see you do the Hawthorn!
I will my friend, probably when the blossom is out in spring. Thank you for your words, and for stopping by here 🌳😊
I enjoy these videos so much. Oak was one of the first trees I learned about as a kid. Intereating fact about oak. You can use older oak leaves to dye fabric. I made my neice a deer doll using them with alittle bit of alum ( I found it in the spice section of the grocery store.) if you were to add nails to it, You get a pretty dark color. Also, you can make bread from the acorns. You just have let them soak in water until the tannins wash away. Some will put them in the river, Some will even put them in the back of their toilet tanks for a few weeks😅. When they lose their color, you can process it into a flour. Thank you for the video. ❤
I’m so glad to hear this. I love that you dyed a deer with oak bark tannin. I meant to talk about oak bread. Probably the most important foodstuff in Europe before farming. Not sure about putting it in the toilet tank though 😅
I'm part of a conservation effort for the longest continuous oak avenue in the souther hemisphere here in my home town of Potchefstroom, Northwest ,South-africa
I spent today cataloging and inspecting 103 oak trees, out of 913
They are really amazing trees
Sounds like really good work, thank you for doing it 🌳♥️🙏
I love trees & saw & pull off ivy plus any holly thats up to no good 💙
13:35 Pole here, and yes, oak is the world tree in slavic mythologies. Also it's the tree of Perun, who is a god of thunder and in many cases is considered the king of the gods.
Ah, great, thanks for confirming that 👍
Thank you, for making this video.
My pleasure 🌳🙏✨
I know this is an older video, but I only came upon your channel recently, and I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your content. Aside from my own hunger for good pagan info and storytelling, I'm writing a Solarpunk novel set in England, Italy and Ireland, and as it's harder for me to visit (I live in Italy), your videos of walking the Ridgeway have been really great. I'm especially interested in any links you have with Brighid :)
Thanks. I’d never heard of solarpunk. I presume it’s the new steampunk and more.. erm. Environmentally conscious 😂
New ridgeway video soon. And I’ll be doing another Brigid vid in the new year. There’s one up there somewhere already.
Good luck with your writing.
I love Italy
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!!!❤OMG same! mine is set in the PNW, USA.
What took the algorithm so long!?!?! You are amazing!!! I'm systematically watching it all. I had been looking at equinox and solstice traditions and having a hard time pinning down the history and folklore. I really appreciate your eclectic storytelling style as it gives me many different avenues to research for more connections. I'm a botany nerd so love hearing about the plant histories.
Botany nerds of the world unite! 🌳🌲😀 honestly that means a lot. Thanks for watching 😊
I live in the village of St Neot in Cornwall where we celebrate oak apple day when a branch of local oak is hauled up to the church turret and remains there for the year.
I like that. Love Cornwall. Family was from down there long ago. Should visit more, but there isn’t a lot of places to park a van anymore 😂
Thank you for the lovely stories. In Bulgarian traditions the oak also have significant role. The spelling of the name read backwards means "future", so on summer solstices they cut a piece of wood (log), which they throw in the fire on Charismas (it is not Charismas in Bulgarian traditions) and the way it burns is used the predict what will happen the coming year.
This is cool! Thank you 🙏
Thank you. An excellent video. Long live the oaks.!
For a beautiful song and video about the oak tree, I humbly suggest the Latvian folk song Ozolini as performed by Auli. The video is beautiful.
I know it! Beautiful. 🙏
So nice following many your stories elsewhere .. its good that English Irish Scots etc. can share without strife and nod to your being Pagan.. takes one to know one :) Bother na coillte Molaim duit
The way of the woods. I like that. Thank you for your comments my friend. I’ve always found there so much more to connect the people of these islands than divides them. The similarity of so many of the old ways being just one example. Humour probably being another.
It makes me happy to hear you tell the story of an oak. ❤ i have a huge beautiful oak in my yard here in alabama, us!😀
Loving the nightingale's contribution as well.
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I enjoy all your stories
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I am so enjoying your videos! Of particular interest are the folklore and myth talks about plants and trees. I have shared your videos with friends here in Canada.
Thank you for spreading the word. I’m very fond of Canadians. Such a beautiful country. I’ll keep making more videos about tree and plant lore alongside myth and story. ☺️🌳🌲🙏
Wonderful. Thank you so much! England is also very beautiful and the people are so friendly and welcoming.
Very magical connection for me personally which is a brand new journey! Old world and new together now .I appreciate you
I’m very glad to hear it ☺️🌳 thanks for watching 🙏
Great video, like always! Also, I'm a little jealous that you got to grow up in such an amazing place. An iron age settlement? Wow! I'm thousands of miles away and that fires up my imagination all the way over here. I can't imagine how fantastic it would be to grow up right there!
The archaeologists are returning this year. Can’t wait to see what they uncover. I’m hoping for a roundhouse 😃
Grateful to the Oak
What a beautiful and noble tree that you have in your life. I appreciated everything you shared. Thank you
You are so welcome my friend 🌳🙏
Pretty tree❤
Absolutely beautiful, thank you, love and light from Cornwall 🌱
Right back at you, from Scotland ✨ 🙏
@14:43 !!❤WOW!
Summer 2024 ❤
Oaks are magnificent! I love learning about this stuff, as my ancestry is mostly Irish with some English
Glad you enjoyed it. Plenty of Irish and English myth and folklore on this channel 🙏✨☺️🌳
Very interesting - thank you! The Oak it seems to me, is very special to England. Holding a very powerful tradition in France (Gaul) and Germany as well. Charlemagne in 772 destroyed the trees, the oak, and grove, at the sacred site: Irminsul, venerated by the Saxon Tribes in Germany. A church later build on the site by Pope Leo III. The Saxons, angry, devastated, fought on for years. Perhaps it was the Saxons who brought this veneration to England. Here in Ireland, it was not so much the Oak, but the Yew - Hazel - and Mountain Ash / Rowan trees that were deemed sacred by the Druids and others.
Fab love oak trees I planted one with my daughter when she was 3. She is now 7 it’s in a big pot. I’ve tried to give it to local forests but no reply. 😢 so for now it’s my duty to care for it and I love it x
Bonsai it! 🌳👍
Ok I will do that!
You can not keep it and plant it?
I live in a built up area where the roots would cause havoc! I would love to though x
Very interesting,alot i never heard before. Keep it up, you are fasinating
Thank you, I will. Glad you’re enjoying the content 🙏
Thank you for another gloriously magical and inspiring video! You most certainly do have viewers in the US, and this one is writing a note of thanks to you from distant Portland, Oregon, (another place that is mercifully rich in trees and forests.)
Hello across the pond ☺️✨👋 🌊
I love you 🌱
A little note on the origin of Duir, as in Irish and Derw, as in Welsh: Proto Indo-European (PIE) suggests the word Daru as meaning ‘tree’. In Slavic languages we see this morpheme; derevo in Russian, dereva in Ukrainian etc. We know from history the Druids had a taboo on writing and looking at many of the words for the flora and fauna in Welsh I might suggest that an underlying and related belief informed their style of nomenclature as well. Names of flora and fauna are far less a label on a thing rather a description of them. Often quite poetic. A good example here is glöyn byw, meaning butterfly, translated word-for-word is ‘living light’ or ‘living ember’. They seemed to not want to merely label things. So my guess here is that the oak was so important and significant to them it’s name actually had the meaning of ‘the tree’; the tree of trees what have you.
Good insights, thank you. I’ve heard heard various etymologies for the word, and this one does make a lot of sense for precisely those reasons 🌳🙏 also, didn’t know the Welsh for butterfly, that is beautiful …
@@TheStoryCrow as a Welsh speaker my biggest motivation in the survival of the language is that it is born of a people who venerated nature. The explanation you give about the etymology of the word Druid is true, although it goes deeper still. The -uid element does indeed mean knowledge in Celtic languages, but is also means presence. We can easily see how there may be a double meaning here, as something of presence is something known, perhaps. Gwyddoniaeth (gwydd=knowledge) is the Welsh word for science. However when this morpheme or element is seen in place names it’s translates to meaning something present or obvious. The Welsh word for Snowdon is yr Wyddfa which would mean the present place translated directly. It’s un mutated form would be Gwyddfa (the G is dropped when you had yr=the before the name itself) So another etymology to consider as well as one who ‘knows the oak’ might be one who is ‘present with the tree’. Just a thought. This absolute reverence the people of Britain once had for their environment and nature is written into the dna of the Welsh language. A reminder our ancestors lived in an oak covered Eden
Oh my goodness, i am learning so much from your videos. You have really given me food for thought. Thank you 🙏 😀
Glad to hear it Ellie 😊
Thank you - exactly what I was looking for! Off to see my local oaks.
Go well to thy grove 🌳 🚪 🧙♂️✨
I am from across the pond friend. The more i watch your videos, the more I find myself liking you, or your way of telling these tales.
I greatly appreciate the knowledge you share w us. Good,good, really good stuff man!
Btw, ive subscribed......been binge watching, trying to catch up on your teachings if you will? Ha! Anywho, good day/evening or whatever, until next time. ✌️🖤and🍄
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Thank you my friend across the pond there! 🌳🐦⬛✨🍄👹🙏💀
Fantastic video
Thanks! 😃
hearts of oak
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have always loved the oak tree, partly because it makes up my surname found this fascinating really enjoyed it.
Everyone loves a good oak 🌳✨🙏⚡️
I didn’t know my birthday is the same day as the oak day, how wonderful to find out😊😊
He is truly magnificent 🌳👑
I love this story telling its great ❤
Thank you!
Thank you for a wonderful video, I love the oak😊 I just wanted to comment that we do have oak in Scandinavia, especially in Denmark. But Norway also had a lot of oak back in the day. A lot were cut to make ships and such, and spruce took over. But they are still here. In Denmark there are many oaks, they have similar climate as in England. I think the story about Lindeormen is danish, so it makes sense.
I often carry acorns in my pocket, I didn't know it was protective though. Love it🌞
Ahh, used to live in Denmark, and thought most of the oaks were British or French imports - like the ones in deer park - but yeah similar climate in Denmark to here. Not quite as warm and moist 😂
@@TheStoryCrowI see:) We still have some oak forest were I live in Norway at least. They are very precious to me. I am planting little oaklings this year also, that I have grown from the acorn :)
I really enjoyed that thank you so much
Glad you enjoyed it ☺️
Just found your channel, loving it. Thank you for all the research and knowledge 🙏
Glad you enjoy it!
Charles III recent coronation invite included symbolism of the green man.
Did it? That’s fascinating. I really like that. Always quite liked that man’s appreciation of folklore and ecology.
Hi, anyone can recommend a book that collects the legends, myths and stories about world folklore or European about oak trees? Thanks
Hi Somesh. World folklore is a pretty big subject, but Alan Garner is a brilliant compiler and editor of European and world folklore. I don’t know a book specifically dedicated to the oak, but Max Adam’s ‘the wisdom of trees’ is a great book about European tree folklore, including oak. Good luck! 🌳
@@TheStoryCrowthanks I appreciate the tip. Do you know also a good book about Runes? Thanks
I do actually! He’s not for everyone, and takes very much a pragmatic (and chaos) approach to the runes - Jan fries’ Helrunar is excellent if you want to work with runes practically. If you’re after something more academic on Viking age mind and magic generally then ‘the Viking way’ by Neil price is dynamite.
Haha inadvertently watchd this today!!!🎉🌳
The Greek "Dryads" also lived in Oak trees. I suspect the name may be related to this "Duir' variant, as well.
Probably. Thanks for bringing that up 🙏☺️🌳
Good stuff.
Glad you enjoyed it
Story Crow. When you studied at bristol university did you ever get to see the jack in the green march? It starts near bristol universities main campus outside of a pub called the green man its utterly delightful
Yes! 🌳
@@TheStoryCrow yay, I'm really happy to hear that, did you go to balloon festival or/and harbour festival? Im bristolian if its not obvious xD
Bristol I treat as my home city, even if I’m not a proper brizzle babber, love the place and the people. Plus I’ve generations of west county seamen standing behind me, so it feels like coming home whenever I visit. When I lived there though I was in my early twenties, so preferred space hacking to balloon festivals (lovely though that spectacle that is). I was probably a bit of a prat really. Exploring the tunnels under the docks was fun. Once I climbed up wills memorial building (when it was scaffolded) and crossed a plank onto the museum, and sat on one of the statues shoulders, so next time your walking by there imagine me sat on the middle one. Stupid thing to do really. It was 4 in the morning and I was intoxicated. 😂
Great thanks. Oak I"m sure is the Christ mas Tree. I thought he represented the Sun but Jupiter sounds good 💙
Cromwell let you guys off easy.☘️😥☘️
Can’t argue with that I suppose. I mean. He burned quite a lot of people to death in England for .. being catholic, or female, or gobby, or wearing too extravagant a hat, but Ireland definitely came off worse…
Can you do one on the Green man? I know he’s everywhere in older chruches and may have a connection to the Green Knight or the Oak/Holly King
Haha and a minute after I post this comment you touch on him. Intuition right there
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I’m planning to do a bit of a deeper dive into the green man, probably in the spring 🌳
is your intro stick upside down on purpose? thx for vid - trying to find correct pronounciation of "Dair"
I was waiting for someone to notice that 😂 no I just wasn’t paying attention 🫣
I believe pronunciation varies from proto to old to contemporary Irish as well as by region so good luck 😬😆🌳
Do you not think the association with lightning is due to the strongly sympodial branching that results in the English Oak's unique structure?
I do now, that’s great, thanks for that. So obvious once someone points it out!
Although I’d argue against any singular association or interpretation, but that there is a great point I hadn’t considered before, cheers! 🙏🌩️
Just one aspect of a truly magnificent tree. The only thing more awe-inspiring is seeing the Oak standing proud with it's ancient friends as described in your other videos. The few scraps of forest we still have are a treasure of immeasurable value. Your stories help us tune into that wonder we almost forgot ☺
( excellent, oak )
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Please do Rowan!! Cheers!
Either Ash or Roman are next on my list 👍🌳 Thanks for watching 🙏☺️
Rowan 😅
Are you going to tell the story of the Lind Worm?
It’s coming 🐛
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Im sorry did you mention how old your oak tree is? Its pretty big!
I’m curious myself
I did measure it’s girth once to get an estimate of its age. It came in at a little under 200 years. I thought it would have been older tbh - but then I could have done it wrong, and it’s not an exact science 🌳
Are the English oak and American oak genetically the same ?. Do growing conditions make them distinct?
I couldn’t really tell you, I imagine they’re broadly similar - like English and European oak. And yeah I’d say conditions make a difference. English oaks are stouter because of the colder and stormier climate
"Sacred Oak Groves" abound all throughout Indo-European myths, and were still in regular use by the Native Peoples of Europe into the 8th century, at least. Boniface's destruction of the Anglo-Saxon, sacred oaks was seen as a formal end to Paganism in that part of Europe.
How did someone with such a silly name do so much wrong 🌳🔥😥
The Irish oak is a different species from the English oak Quercus Robur and probably hardier and tolerates poorer soils.
Probably. A bit like how the English oak is tougher and stouter then the French oak. I hear the shillelagh was traditionally made from Irish oak, given its toughness, but due to its scarcity, blackthorn is used most commonly. I certainly didn’t see much oak last time I was in Ireland. But then I practically live in an oak forest 🌳
Apart from Ireland it grows from Wester Ross down the west coast. Warwickshire so Shakespeares oak?
Leafage beats the English oak. The iron works in NW Scotland greatly depleted the Highland woods burnt for charcoal. Saved by the switch to coal/coke.
So is willow oak included?
I don’t see why not, it’s more of an oak then a willow I think 😊
What makes u think it,s him tree
In Serbia we burn oak branches in spring
Was the word "Druid" derived from "Duir"?
Lots of etymological labyrinths here, but possibly yes, meaning ‘oak’ (daur) or ‘tree’ or ‘door’ knowledge’ or ‘seeing’ - dru - wid ?? Who knows 😅
@@TheStoryCrow Jordan Maxwell had said in a late interview he had an original bible which had "King Druid" in the place of "King David". Tells you a lot.
That’s cool
My last name means oak 💚🌰🌳⚡️
Professor oak
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Holly King
Holly king.
The Bur Oak of eastern North America rivals the English Oak.
The Quran and Islam itself hinges on a tree. We say it is the date tree. Could also be a contender for the axis tree of life.
Definitely. Really interesting symbology the date tree 🌴
@ sorry I forgot there’s two trees in the Quran. One is the good tree and the other is the evil tree.
The good tree symbolises the whole of Islam. It has firm deep roots that stabilises it against all of life’s tests and difficulties. It has branches which reach up to the sky for…guidance?
The evil tree has short roots which cause it to sway in the wind and eventually falls down under its own weight or prolonged tests of wind and rain.
All trees are Muslim, meaning they submit to the will of the creator.
Some trees can talk, there’s a famous tree the prophet Muhammad stood against that would cry for years because it missed him until the early Muslims cut it down and buried it next to him (to stop the noise).
Towards the end of time, which is near (remember that Muhammad is the last of all the messengers of God), all trees (and animals will be able to speak).
And most interesting, something I only realised a few weeks ago, there are no trees on the day of judgement (except the evil Tree of Zaqqum) so no shade, no food, no relief. Trees are a sign of Gods presence, love and mercy on earth but those signs are not needed in the next life…
Then there’s the most famous tree, “sidratul muntaha” the lote tree, banyan tree or fig tree. It signifies the end of the world and the start of paradise, a divine border if you will.
In Islam we say there were over 124,000 messengers of God, only 20 or so mentioned in the Quran. So many wise people say that Buddha, Thor etc could have been one of those messengers but over time their message got distorted by people…
Hiya.. it was a good video until your flip flopping jibba jabba about the round earth...clearly ratlled voice trying to say earth is a globe.. 😅 its fine there is no need f9r you to out yourself as a flat earth person..keep up the great work ❤
Ah, welcome my flat earth believing friend! Each to their own. Hey, maybe it’s all a simulation anyway. Thanks for watching. 🙏
So the Puritans [Christians] were whipped with nettles for not showing loyalty to Saturn/Green Man/Odin/Charles over and above the true Oak King Zeus/Thor...
😂 well technically they were all Christians. It was the 1700s. The non puritanical variety still had a lot of the old ways running through it, that’s all. Like a wild garden. The puritans did a hell of a lot of weeding. And burning.
@@TheStoryCrow Weeding and burning nettles so they couldn't be used to whip Puritans with?
@@scottphillips7108 not nettles, no my friend. Humans. 🧙🔥😔
@@TheStoryCrow Oh I see now you mean like the pagans who take/took lives of humans in their rituals... Thanks for clarifying... Appreciated...
@@scottphillips7108 Well, that was a tad earlier… not really the same practices and beliefs in Iron Age Europe 😅
But yeah. Humans do some strange things in the name of God(s) don’t they? And the wounds can run deep. Generation deep. And we all feel the repercussion don’t we?
To be honest mate, I sit here reading your comments and I have nothing but love to you brother, wherever you are. Let’s heal old wounds. Swords into ploughs. Go well on on your path. It would be lovely to meet you someday.
Peace 🙏 ✨
wow, good stuff.
My last name means oak 💚🌰🌳⚡️