"Here the leaf litter was soft and damp, and twigs bent under my feet. The oak was considered to be sacred to Thor, or Thunor, the thunder god in ancient European and Norse mythology. Celts favoured the oaks for druidic rites, and these trees were iconic as spirit beings."*
A tree as magnificent as the oak has found a place in the mythology of most of the peoples with which it shared the same land and is not the single iconographical property of one.
* <b>The Real Middle Earth</b> by Brian Bates. ISBN 0-283-07353-5. pp 50.
