Does this look suspiciously Druidic?
...or is it just me?
A photo from Haguenau, Alsace, France; the "large Oak"; with this, from the official tourism's site:
"The holy forest :
Northern Alsace was a land of welcome for the hermits at the end of the Middle Ages.
The large Oak close to Haguenau was, according to the legend, the place of dwelling of several hermits."
("Hermits", ehh...rrright- but one still has to wonder as to their true origins)
www.tourisme-haguenau.com/spip.php
The following concerns a site which may be the same, or very near-by:
"In the history of the saints of Alsace- life of Ste. Brigide- it is said that " she erected for herself " a little cell under a large oak . This was in the sixth century."
"Notre-Dame du Chêne, Gaersdorf (Bas Rhin). Hertzog, a chronicler at the end of the sixteenth century, says that it was so called after the pagan priests of Germany, called Druids". pg.223; books.google.com/books
(I came across this while perusing archeological finds near Rittershoffen, France, where my great-grandmother and several generations of her family, came from.)
A photo from Haguenau, Alsace, France; the "large Oak"; with this, from the official tourism's site:
"The holy forest :
Northern Alsace was a land of welcome for the hermits at the end of the Middle Ages.
The large Oak close to Haguenau was, according to the legend, the place of dwelling of several hermits."
("Hermits", ehh...rrright- but one still has to wonder as to their true origins)
www.tourisme-haguenau.com/spip.php
The following concerns a site which may be the same, or very near-by:
"In the history of the saints of Alsace- life of Ste. Brigide- it is said that " she erected for herself " a little cell under a large oak . This was in the sixth century."
"Notre-Dame du Chêne, Gaersdorf (Bas Rhin). Hertzog, a chronicler at the end of the sixteenth century, says that it was so called after the pagan priests of Germany, called Druids". pg.223; books.google.com/books
(I came across this while perusing archeological finds near Rittershoffen, France, where my great-grandmother and several generations of her family, came from.)