sentences:  Some surviving stories regarding Iðunn focus on her youth-maintaining apples.English scholar Hilda Ellis Davidson links apples to religious practices in Germanic paganism.She points out that buckets of apples were found in the 9th-century Oseberg ship burial site in Norway and that fruit and nuts (Iðunn having been described as being transformed into a nut in "Skáldskaparmál") have been found in the early graves of the Germanic peoples in England and elsewhere on the continent of Europe which may have had a symbolic meaning and also that nuts are still a recognized symbol of fertility in Southwest England.