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Old 09-18-2006, 03:42 AM   #11
The Squatter of Amon Rűdh
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Pipe Seeds of the Two Trees

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And there are Two Trees in Norse myth - Ask & Embla (Ash & Elm) from which the gods create men & women...
In point of fact, Ask and Embla are the names of the first man and woman, so called because they were made from driftwood: pieces of ash and elm respectively. There are also two trees in Alexander's letter to Aristotle, which was a popular text in the Anglo-Saxon period both in Latin and in the English translation. In fact the trees of Sun and Moon seem a more likely direct source for Laurelin and Telperion, although it's possible that the trees in the dubiously ascribed letter were directly based on the two trees of Genesis: the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

I was trying to find a decent Old English text of Alexander's letter online, but all I can find is a graphotactic version that's very difficult to read. I'll try to add some quotations when I've had a chance to consult my own copy of the letter.
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