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 💙

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.

This is cool! Thank you 🙏

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!

I will my friend, probably when the blossom is out in spring. Thank you for your words, and for stopping by here 🌳😊

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 😅

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.

Ah, great, thanks for confirming that 👍

Botany nerds of the world unite! 🌳🌲😀 honestly that means a lot. Thanks for watching 😊

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.

Glad you enjoyed it ☺️

I know it! Beautiful. 🙏

The archaeologists are returning this year. Can’t wait to see what they uncover. I’m hoping for a roundhouse 😃

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Plenty more to come ☺️ There’s a lotta trees 🌳😅

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You are so welcome my friend 🌳🙏

I’m very glad to hear it ☺️🌳 thanks for watching 🙏

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Right back at you, from Scotland ✨ 🙏

My pleasure 🌳🙏✨

Probably. Thanks for bringing that up 🙏☺️🌳

Go well to thy grove 🌳 🚪 🧙‍♂️✨

Everyone loves a good oak 🌳✨🙏⚡️

Glad you enjoyed it. Plenty of Irish and English myth and folklore on this channel 🙏✨☺️🌳

Thank you, I will. Glad you’re enjoying the content 🙏

Glad to hear it Ellie 😊

Did it? That’s fascinating. I really like that. Always quite liked that man’s appreciation of folklore and ecology.

Thanks! 😃

Glad you enjoy it!

Glad you enjoyed it

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

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.

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. 😂

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.

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…

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

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How did someone with such a silly name do so much wrong 🌳🔥😥

Either Ash or Roman are next on my list 👍🌳 Thanks for watching 🙏☺️

Rowan 😅

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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 🌳

I don’t see why not, it’s more of an oak then a willow I think 😊

Holly king.

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.

😂 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 🙏 ✨