Norwegian Spruce: Our Viking Christmas Tree; aka ‘The Return of the Native’

Trees A Crowd
24/12/2021 8 min Temporada 3 Episodio 42
Norwegian Spruce: Our Viking Christmas Tree; aka ‘The Return of the Native’

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BONUS EPISODE: For Christmas, David Oakes explores the cultural importance of the non-native Christmas Tree, the Norwegian Spruce (Picea abies). Although native to our shores before the most recent Ice Age, it took Vikings from Scandanavia, Princes from Saxe-Coburg, Violinists from Italy and Horses from Aintree to truly root the Norwegian Spruce into our National identity - and that's not to mention any British Christmas rituals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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