Hail all! For the third Sunday of June, I have another poem for you. It’s about my other favorite tree, the Yew (Taxus baccata). With it, there’s a picture of some yew trees from Ireland, which I took when I visited there on a research trip in 2019.
Enjoy!
The Yew
The Tree of Trees for triumph I praise,
that fimbul rood and focus of Spirit
a gift of the Gods for the gain of Midgard.
A lustrous light, it is life in death
when cold and snow surround our ken.
For the noble Norse and numerous others,
it is majesty, main, and myth-saturated;
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The Skaldic Eagle 