how is it related to paganism in germany?
English scholar H. R. Ellis Davidson links it to religious practices in Germanic paganism.
Apple
English scholar H. R. Ellis Davidson links apples to religious practices in Germanic paganism
where does the flesh of an apple come from Central Asia what is apple? It is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree.
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Apple [SEP] Germanic paganism
In Norse mythology, the goddess Iðunn is portrayed in the "Prose Edda" (written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson) as providing apples to the gods that give them eternal youthfulness. English scholar H. R. Ellis Davidson links apples to religious practices in Germanic paganism, from which Norse paganism developed. She points out that buckets of apples were found in the Oseberg ship burial site in Norway, 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 that nuts are still a recognized symbol of fertility in southwest England.