Yew The yew is a tree with rough bark, hard and fast in the earth, supported by its roots, a guardian of flame and a joy upon an estate. Anglo Saxon rune poem From Wikipedia article on the rune Eihwaz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eihwaz I chose to write about the yew for Winter Solstice, standing as it does between the six weeks which I am calling the tide of the berries (Halloween to Yule) and the six weeks of evergreens (Yule to Candlemas), since the yew has both berries and evergreen…
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