What do you know about Europe's ancient, pagan past – and its fantasy legacy?

I talk to the trees, but they don't listen to me…

Lerner and Loewe, Paint Your Wagon

Do you talk to trees? Do you sometimes feel they 'need a hug'? If you're of European ancestry, it may be in your genes.

Answer these questions about old European tree folklore and new mythology.

1. What kind of tree is Yggdrasil, the Norse World Tree?
2. What kind of tree was sacred to the oracle at Dodona in Greece?
3. How can a tree help heal the sick?
4. What did St Boniface do with the wood once he cut down Thor's Oak?
5. Medieval Christians were not above tree worship. What's special about Glastonbury Thorn?
6. Who wrote about Telperion and Laurelin?
7. What tree did WB Yeats use to catch his fish in 'The Song of Wandering Angus'?
8. What unusual talent do the trees have in The Chronicles of Narnia?
9. What race worships trees in The Return of the Jedi?
10. Why did fans of the New Zealand fantasy series The Almighty Johnsons mail twigs to the network?

How great a druid were you? Click on the pic to find out.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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