sorb-tree

Updated: May 14, 2025

"It befalls of thy pride belike, in that thou deemest thyself the first of men." Atli said, "Moreover I dreamed that here waxed two sorb-tree saplings, and fain I was that they should have no scathe of me; then these were riven up by the roots and reddened with blood, and borne to the bench, and I was bidden eat thereof.

- The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) : With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda