Irish Trees by Mac Coitir Niall

Author:Mac Coitir, Niall [Mac Coitir, Niall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DirecteBooks Limited
Published: 2010-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

In Silesia many villages welcomed summer by throwing an effigy of Death into water to symbolically drown it. After thus defeating Death the children celebrated the rebirth of life by cutting down a small fir tree, decorating it and carrying it from door to door singing songs and looking for money. In Eisenach on the fourth Sunday in Lent a straw man representing Death was tied to a wheel, set alight and sent rolling down a hill. After this, a tall fir tree was cut and set up dressed in ribbons in the plain below. The birch was used in many similar summer time ceremonies and both trees were probably regarded as similar in nature as trees of birth. Indeed, the Icelandic rune poem for the rune bjarkan or ‘birch’ is glossed with the word abies – a Latin word for pine.

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