help jgs...

I am at a loss...  I'm trying to answer a trivia question about German
mythology-- and I can't find the solution... I've searched the search
engines... and still can't find the answer.     I know this doesn't have to
do with ASCII art, but I know many of you have used my pics, and I
am asking a favor in return... 

A serpent with a magic stone in his head can be found at the roots
of a certain tree.  What kind of tree?  

I need an answer VERY soon...  if anyone can help me-- I would 
appreciate it! 
and some ASCII art:
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eek-- I should've stated my choices are:  birch, holly, hazel, or 
walnut...  
Alas, ash will not work.  ;(
I appreciate the help...
..still looking...
-joan
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>>A serpent with a magic stone in his head can be found at the roots
>>of a certain tree.  What kind of tree?
>Um. I don't know if German and Norse mythology are similar animals, but I
>got this from
>http://members.aol.com/mmqchome2/mythnotes.htm (a really big page)
>
>Basically, it says that wrapped around the roots of Yggdrasil is Nidhug, a
>serpent who gnaws at the roots;  when he has gnawed them all, the tree
>topples, and everything will be destroyed.  Yggdrasil is an ash tree.

In article <199...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
spu...@aol.com (Spunk1111) wrote:
> >>A serpent with a magic stone in his head can be found at the roots
> >>of a certain tree.  What kind of tree?
> >Um. I don't know if German and Norse mythology are similar animals, but I
> >got this from
> >http://members.aol.com/mmqchome2/mythnotes.htm (a really big page)
> >
> >Basically, it says that wrapped around the roots of Yggdrasil is Nidhug, a
> >serpent who gnaws at the roots;  when he has gnawed them all, the tree
> >topples, and everything will be destroyed.  Yggdrasil is an ash tree.
>
> eek-- I should've stated my choices are:  birch, holly, hazel, or
> walnut...
> Alas, ash will not work.  ;(
> I appreciate the help...
> ..still looking...
> joan stark  spu...@juno.com
> ASCII ART GALLERY: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/

While looking for the answer to your question (alas, Joan, I think I
haven't found it) and waiting for things to load to see if they were the
answer, I drew this tree:

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ejm97         `

Then I added a bird:

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ejm97         `

Then I added a bird and a snake:

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Just in case you have trouble finding them, here they are without the
tree:                      
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As to the search, I only found reference to a serpent at the roots of a
world tree (that had a bird at the top of it).

and this reference that unfortunately gives none of your choices:

(http://www.logon.org/English/039paper.html)
Thus the oak was sacred to the Celts, the ash to the Scandinavians, the
lime-tree to the Germans, the fig-tree to India.

If you find the answer, do tell us.


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>Thus the oak was sacred to the Celts, the ash to the Scandinavians, the
>lime-tree to the Germans, the fig-tree to India.

Well,  I'm not happy about it, but the answer was "hazel"--
Apparently, despite all the websites and the library sources
which say that the world tree is an ash, there is one website
that has the tree listed as a hazel-- and that's the source which
the question used...   Believe me, I have razed a bit of a
stink about it... this webmaster doesn't know their ash from
a hole in the ground... or better yet, has their head up their
ash...
  I play a "fun" online trivia game at: 
http://www.momsonline.com/sphinx.asp
Veronica knows, as I have queried her on Norse mythology...
I appreciate the help from all...  Thanks...
And if I get stuck again, I *might* just post another
off-topic message  (although I will add some ASCII art!)
-joan
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[giggles]

BTW, can we cuss on a.a.a?

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Spunk1111 wrote in message
<199...@ladder01.news.aol.com>...
>or better yet, has their head up their
>ash...
>  I play a "fun" online trivia game at:
>http://www.momsonline.com/sphinx.asp
>Veronica knows, as I have queried her on Norse mythology...
>I appreciate the help from all...  Thanks...
>And if I get stuck again, I *might* just post another
>off-topic message  (although I will add some ASCII art!)
>-joan
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Hell no!

    -Nana

On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, it was written:

> [giggles]
> 
> BTW, can we cuss on a.a.a?

God dammit, don't use that shitty language! :P

[chortles softly to himself]

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Nana wrote in message <6404q7$6s...@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca>...
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>Hell no!
>
>    -Nana
>
>On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, it was written:
>
>> [giggles]
>>
>> BTW, can we cuss on a.a.a?
>