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Perkwunia / Oak

Perkwunia / Oak
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 Dinesh
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The name of the Hercynian Forest, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercynian_Forest first recorded by Aristotle in 350 BC, is Celtic -- ‘Ercunia’, or, in the very old days, before the language had changed, “Perkwunia’, meaning ‘Oak’. The other word for ‘Oak’ was ‘dru-‘ as in ‘Druid’. Ancient Celtic seems not to have distinguished different species of ‘quercus,’ and so the two words must have referred to the tree in different guises. The Ercunian was the wild, uncultivated oak, the centenarian giant that has never spread its lattice shade in a Druid’s grove and whose acorns fed animals that had never seen a human ing. Its domain was larger than an empire. The breadth of the forest, Caesar learned, was nine days of someone travelling without baggage, but its length was a matter of conjecture -- sixty days, according to Pomponius Mela, more if Caesar’s information was correct. The forest began in the lands of the Nemetes, the Helvetti and the Rauraci who lived along the Rhine. Some people from that part of Germania had trekked through the tangled gloom for sixty days and had never reached the other side, nor even found a creature who could tell them where it ended.

‘Impervious to the passage of time’, the Hercynian Forest was thought to be as old as the world itself. Remnants of what was once the largest natural feature in Europe survive in patches of woodland and forest. The town of Pforzheim, which is not the northern gateway of Black Forest, was once Porta Hercyniae. Some of the migrants led by Segovesus would have passed through the Bavarian or Bohemian Forest which marks the borders of Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. The names ‘Bavaria’ and ‘Bohemia’, are mementos of the restless Boii tree, who took part in so many Celtic migrations that no one knew for sure -- perhaps not even the Boii en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boii themselves -- where their homeland had been. - page 163
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THE DISCOVERY OF MIDDLE EARTH
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