The sacred yew

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The sacred yew

Anand Chetan and Diana Brueton ; [with an introduction by David Bellamy ; with a foreword by Sir George Trevelyan]

Arkana, 1994

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Cover subtitle: Rediscovering the ancient tree of life through the work of Allen Meredith

Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-[297]) and index

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This volume centres on the work of Allen Meredith, who for 14 years has been tracking down and charting all Britain's yew trees, and whose life is now dedicated to their preservation. His discovery that many of these trees are thousands rather than hundreds of years old is now accepted by botanists like David Bellamy, and his theory that the Magna Carta was signed, not at Runnymede, but beneath a yew tree just across the Thames, has also found scholarly support. Meredith has a visionary belief in the importance of the yew tree to life on Earth, and the other main strand of the book is a study of the tree's role in Christian and pre-Christian tradition: the inspiration of the ancient festival of yule, was it also the Nordic tree of life, Yggdrasil?

目次

  • The tree of life
  • "The Man Who Almost Became a Yew Tree"
  • regeneration
  • "The Life of a Yew, the Length of an Age"
  • why are yews in churchyards?
  • hidden clues - the name of the yew
  • Ankerwyke
  • the world tree
  • the yew and the goddess
  • the yew in Celtic tradition
  • groves and lone trees
  • under the greenwood tree
  • the sacred trees of Ireland
  • yew medicine
  • guardian of the planet. Appendices: caring for yews
  • recording planting dates and growth
  • recorded measurements.

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