A Yew stood up the road from our house and was part of the scenery . I’d left the village for 7 years but on returning was aware of a strange emptiness until I realised it had completely vanished from the front garden boundary’s of no. 9/ 11 . Within a couple of years the perpetrator of it’s removal had expired also -in spite of being less ancient at around 48 years old. The superstition re these old creatures shouldn’t be underestimated ! Regards from Wessex
@KiwiUkulele
12 жыл бұрын
Lol the yew tree next to the church in lumbridge.....X)
@brandonkarhu5599
4 жыл бұрын
Seriously though. lol.
@ragnkja
12 жыл бұрын
When Christianity was introduced, it was quite common for the churches to be built on the religious sites of the previous religion. The church site nearest where I live has been the site of christian worship for a millennium, but there is archaeological evidence of religious practice going much further back than that.
@ElectricityTaster
6 жыл бұрын
The more yew know!
@MultiLisa10
4 жыл бұрын
😣
@smbhax
14 жыл бұрын
Wow, I hadn't realized yew trees can live for thousands of years. Amazing trees!
@davidrobert1855
7 жыл бұрын
Supermassive Black Hole A* their is a yew in Derbyshire believed to be 2000 years old
@TheDennys21
2 жыл бұрын
Olive trees can live for thousands of years too.
@KyuuDesperation
Жыл бұрын
Any tree can live for thousands of years if no human domestication and interaction.
@BITARTEN
14 жыл бұрын
So nice video. As you say in Spain we alwo have some places with natural (non planted) yew trees, like Montserrat and some others in northern mountains. I love it and in the shield of Gipuzkoa, a bask province, there are represented 3 yew trees.
@yvettewillis5204
7 жыл бұрын
The Sagittarius Archer's bow was made from the yew tree.
@Vonargandur
11 жыл бұрын
yew bows were legendary and considered absolutely precious according to the sagas of the viking age in Iceland, it may well be that the yew in the Uk is to gnarly and twisted for bowmaking, but yew was used nonetheless. i have a yew bow myself, it has a few knots but it doesnt matter. its quite strong. yew was also considered holy in norse mythology, which must be an ancient tradidion because there is no yew in Iceland, and it was settled in 870. i dont think there is yew in norway either.
@paulbutterworthbillericay
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very interesting, I monitor a Yew here in Essex England, it's the oldest one here, most likely planted by the Norman's, but possibly by the Saxons,,very hard to tell, I have thought the bent branches would make excellent long bows, as the wood is so hard and dense, I have recently been wondering would an English Yew grew and survive a Swedish winter -30, are there any in Scandinavia, I once planted an English Horse Chestnut, which survived the winters!!!!! But the growth over many years was tiny
@Rymorin4
3 жыл бұрын
@@paulbutterworthbillericay found a cool plot of land in bc canada with a yew tree. might name my farm after it.
@Motivationalwisdomspeech
3 жыл бұрын
Ullr's tree Thors son
@o0QuAdSh0t0o
2 жыл бұрын
Requires 60 fletching to make
@colsinclair7793
4 жыл бұрын
The churches got built round the yew trees
@Wotsitorlabart
8 ай бұрын
No they didn't.
@singlespies
14 жыл бұрын
YewTube - for the sacred tree hugger in us all.
@Wotsitorlabart
8 ай бұрын
The supposed Druidic/Celtic sacred tree link with the yews being found in churchyards is nonsense. The early 6th/7th century Irish church began planting yews near churches in an adoption of the Mediterranean practice of placing evergreens around burial sites - the yew being the most suitable. They were also planted to commemorate saints. This practice was carried by Irish monks to Wales, Scotland and eventually England. The vast majority of churchyard yews were planted at the time of the construction of the church. Certainly in England yew trees older than the adjacent churches would have been markers signifying a place of assembly or a boundary during the Anglo-Saxon period. There is little evidence that the pagan peoples of Britain and Ireland believed the yew to be sacred. And in the case of the Druids - no evidence at all.
@pulpculchure
13 жыл бұрын
@nottinghamscience This is great stuff- I just watched your whole series and love the history especially. Please keep them coming!
@davidazinger5639
4 жыл бұрын
can we see the leaves ? Sacred? If you worship the yew tree that makes you an idolator, breaking the 1st commandment. If someone worships their corvette, it doesn't make the corvette sacred.
@christopherellis2663
5 жыл бұрын
I made a pilgrimage to see the Fortingall Yew in Perthshire, in 2015. I love to eat yew fruit, and have even made a jam from it. Food in winter is much appreciated, even if the seed,as with the rest of the tree, is toxic. Note : Taxus, yew; toxos, bow, & toxic, poisonous.
@yusukeshinyama
14 жыл бұрын
To curious minds, your videos are always fresh fountainhead of interests. Thank you!
@MultiLisa10
4 жыл бұрын
Original tree huggers
@RPe-jk6dv
Жыл бұрын
the yew is often mentioned in the ghost stories of m r james.
@omnicronvegas
12 жыл бұрын
thank yew!
@richardm893
3 жыл бұрын
The word "berry" comes from the word "Iberia".
@yusukeshinyama
14 жыл бұрын
@CommonRaven I was born in a mountainous area in Japan, and sure they're biologically interesting, but they also have a lot of cultural traditions and fascinating stories about trees, perhaps just as many as Britain's. I'd like to see those explained by local people (I, for one, know very little too). I wish every country had a channel like this.
@nottinghamscience
14 жыл бұрын
@culwin The larch will have it's day... we're just building the suspense!
@robertk1968
14 жыл бұрын
What about the significant point that they are one of the most poisonous trees in Europe and where regularly used for that purpose.
@kinghailz786
4 жыл бұрын
Sacred for those who worshipped something else... 1:57... truth is stranger than fiction my friend
@blackbass4u2c
Жыл бұрын
Yew trees were use to make bows...
@richardm893
6 жыл бұрын
They used the berries on the tips of their arrows which were and still are poisonous (actually the seeds). And it wasnt the English it was the Celts or original British whom still called it the Iber or Eber tree.
@christopherellis2663
5 жыл бұрын
Eboracum, York
@richardm893
4 жыл бұрын
@@hobmoor2042 Prove it or get lost.
@zoehancock
3 жыл бұрын
The berries are the one part of the tree that isn't toxic. Though the inner pip bit is.
@richardm893
3 жыл бұрын
@@zoehancock Did I not write that?
@dooleyfussle8634
6 жыл бұрын
More than likely, the archers were protecting their bow strings from the damp, not the yew bow. Wet strings become stretchy and weak, something that you don't want to happen when you are shooting a bow!
@0dinseye
7 жыл бұрын
Lovin' this dissemination of tree knowledge.
@richardm893
6 жыл бұрын
Only problem is those Druids didnt call them Yew trees they called them Eber trees where we get the word "berry" from also the root of the word Hebrew (H was added by the Scots like the name Andrew).
@kopynd1
3 жыл бұрын
why didnt u go to the rear of the church where the oldest yew tree is banded with steel its about 700 yrs old and still thriving just take the a69, 7 miles past hexham beltingham
@alisimon2224
2 жыл бұрын
I use a sauce from the tip of the yew tree and it's very effective for some skin problems- the Naitive Americans used it
@marshataylor4086
5 жыл бұрын
I,love trees
@cannyleimojica7789
3 жыл бұрын
I'm here because i watched "call of the monster" , fascinating tree.
@LordEruvala
12 жыл бұрын
Is there a bank close to this yew? If so i just got 60 wc, and i'm headin there now!
@dondude69
14 жыл бұрын
I love these videos, always learning something!
@eldooder7508
8 жыл бұрын
yeeeeeewwwww! 🏄🏽
@my_resume_is_a_bad_bitch4281
5 жыл бұрын
Crank dat soulja boy!
@toppertruthio
12 жыл бұрын
ok i stand corrected;)
@eastern3318
6 жыл бұрын
Watt Wood Yew Dew
@gethinjones9987
2 жыл бұрын
thares an old church in my vilage with an even older yew tree
@Canerican.
5 жыл бұрын
Those trees are so beautiful! I don’t think we have them in Canada!
@Test7017
4 жыл бұрын
I saw a dragon near the tree
@nottinghamscience
14 жыл бұрын
@yusukeshinyama thank you!!!
@HikingFeral
5 жыл бұрын
They are also the most poisonous and toxic tree in this country. If you were to make needle tea with the yew by accident you would die, if you were to make a fire with the wood by accident and Inhaled much smoke. You would die. It is a beautiful terrible tree and I love it.
@kinghailz786
4 жыл бұрын
The idea that it's sacred is false. A manipulation that occurred many years ago... but the tree was and IS still sacred... but for who and for what purpose?... I think you'll find the answer at 1:57... what does this resemble?... after you have connected the dots, it won't take you long to realise the reason of the facts in the comment you initially made...
@scryingmirror8982
5 жыл бұрын
F Yew!
@MultiLisa10
4 жыл бұрын
Can these trees grow in the U.S.?
@liamhoward2208
4 жыл бұрын
Lord of the rings tree
@XOXO-mb2vh
6 жыл бұрын
Its deadly though!
@nazgulskyrim7377
4 жыл бұрын
Are you on about the ur an legend which I agree is deadly
@arghapirate2427
6 жыл бұрын
Ygdrasil
@roidroid
14 жыл бұрын
SACRED YEW YEW? NO U!
@chromosomegun5845
2 жыл бұрын
The Treeline brought me here
@x42brown
12 жыл бұрын
Defiantly not from saplings. A bow stave has both sapwood and heartwood (see the picture from 0:53 to 1:00 the different colour s of the inside and outside of the bows) and exploits the different properties of the two woods. A tree has to be reasonable mature to be able to cut such a stave.
@atourdeforce
14 жыл бұрын
yew is one of the most beautiful grained and coloured timbers i love working with it, turning it ect its also extraordinary hard, my family have been working in the sawmill/waterwheel/water turbine industry foe maybe 100 years., me im hoping to finish medicine but i will always have a love for all the types of timber, the guy below me rates larch very highly and so he should its a fabulously strong and long lasting timber much like douglas!!
@davidpeterson3589
12 жыл бұрын
yes
@kinghailz786
4 жыл бұрын
1:57 - the sign of the baphomet... so for who EXACTLY are these trees sacred for...? I think you know.
@ChildofChrist508
2 жыл бұрын
My name is Yvette French for Yewtree. hollow you are holy you are sacred! Bless it be!
@jason-bs8de
5 жыл бұрын
Anyone went to this vid because maybe a project about the Iceman's artifacts???
@MultiLisa10
4 жыл бұрын
I was just looking up the meaning of the name Yvonne and this word YEW was in the meaning!?🤔 Ok, then🤷.
@vidaripollen
13 жыл бұрын
very happy to c.hope u prayed to it.
@urmonn8162
6 жыл бұрын
My friend finds fallen yew pieces and crafts amazing weapong tools and art with them, lamps masks,,,it's the Western yew wich is fairly common here, he only takes the fallen pieces, wich works well because it doesn't rot!
@shanewickham8667
3 жыл бұрын
Yew what?
@summermucha5207
2 жыл бұрын
WOW! Can you show us more of any hollow yew trees you come across? Hollow is hallowed is holy. You are holy! You are sacred. (That means all of us! 💗)
@07thomasdd
11 жыл бұрын
If you was patient then you would have seen that they uploaded a video of the larch.
@laurencemanning1
5 жыл бұрын
#SurviveTheJive
@ssnp
14 жыл бұрын
will you be covering the maple tree? for all the canadians who watch your video, which are all great.
@mustamuri
4 ай бұрын
✨🌴✨ 👶❤️
@chetanyadutt5799
6 жыл бұрын
Voldemort ,s. wand
@alisimon2224
2 жыл бұрын
Sauve
@Scrap5000
14 жыл бұрын
So cool, this must be where the keebller elves live!
@toppertruthio
12 жыл бұрын
longbows are made from sapling ewe trees i think
@FionnghulaThell
3 жыл бұрын
So what wood did the english use for longbows then? You never said.
@gigizack
Жыл бұрын
Mainly yew from Spain and Italy, elm and ash
@ymeekins6357
6 жыл бұрын
interesting info indeed.
@geniousgerrard
12 жыл бұрын
yewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
@rcmeyerson
13 жыл бұрын
YEWW crank that soulja boy!!
@thehanterman1
8 жыл бұрын
Umm . please could you enlighten me on the source of the stated fact that Druidic people sat in special Groves of Common Yew. Bows can be made quite easily in the UK from Training the Yew during growth and there are as many if not more old Yews outside of Churchyards. Quite a few myths there.
@halo091
6 жыл бұрын
There were a few trees that were sacred to pagans ash, oak, yew
@urmonn8162
6 жыл бұрын
They gathered at the oak, the yew was where the Native Americans burrowed there Shamans, also I know that in the Runic tradition Yew means the way, defender , the path, 180,zero point, evergreen
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