On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Haukur Thorgeirsson wrote:

> I know that I hung,
> on a wind-rocked tree,
> nine whole nights,
> with a spear wounded,
> and to Odin offered,
> myself to myself;
> on that tree,
> of which no one knows
> from what root it springs.

> This is much more accurate.
> My only complaint is with the needless change of plural
> to singular in "rótum; roots". [Unless that is a
> transcription error in the online edition.]

This is not a minor change: one of the most important characteristics of
the Ash is that it has three roots.








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