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10b  Cat’s herbs in memoriam of Freya’s cats II

10c (Detail II) [Kung fu cat? ;-)]

11  What Little Mandragora knows about monk’s-hood or wolfsbane and about the favorite tree of the death-god Vidar.

12 Lok (?),  Loki’s oat (?), henbane and fern belong to Loki and his fierce kin

13 Loki’s plants

14 Baldersaugenbrauen (”Balder’s brow” = Hypericum), Valerian and Mistletoe heal every damage

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I stumbled upon this awesome book some days ago. It’s “Alräunchens Kräuterbuch” (Little Mandragora’s Herb-Book) from 1928. The second part deals with Germanic mythology and plants.


0  Little Mandragora’s Herb-Book Part II

1 The world-tree Yggdrasil and it’s offspring

2 Yggrasil

2b Yggdrasil (detail roots)

2c Yggdrasil (detail crown)

3 About the three Wodans-herbs

4 Women’s tears [lilies of the valley], Frigg’s thorn [dog rose] and other flowers of Frigg

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5 About wolf’s, raven’s and hawk’s herbs

6  "Bub- und Schäfchenpflanze" [kingcup and dandelion], pasque flower, wood avens and other companions of Frigg

7 Oaktrees, holly and livelong are considered as plants of Thor, the thunder-god

8 Carlina thistle, coltsfoot bittersweet belong to the spring-god Freyr

9 Freya and the three sun-brides: common daisy, common chicory and marigold

10 Cat’s herbs in memoriam of Freya’s cats I

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Viking-era woman sheds light on Iceland’s earliest settlers

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ATLANTA — Iceland’s “woman in blue,” the partial skeleton of a young woman found in 1938 in a grave with Viking-era objects, was a child of some of the island’s earliest settlers, researchers reported April 14 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Tooth development and wear suggest she was between 17 and 25 years old when she died.

It’s not known if the woman was a Viking or if she came from another northern European population, said bio-archaeologist Tina Jakob of Durham University in England. A chemical analysis of one of her teeth indicates that, between ages 5 and 10, she started eating a lot of fish and other seafood for the first time after having previously consumed mainly plants and land animals, a team led by Jakob and Joe Walser III of the University of Iceland in Reykjavik found.

“The ‘woman in blue’ was not Icelandic,” Jakob says. “She came from southern Scandinavia or the British Isles.” Read more.

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