Elm Tree Facts

'Dignity', 'Melancholy', 'Death', 'Communication', 'Relationships'.

Often used for coffins.

In Scandinavian and Germanic mythology, it created the first woman.

An ancient Elm tree (known as l'Ormeteau-Ferre) was chosen at Gisors in Normandy, on the Epte River as a meeting point between the French King and the Norman Duke, at the area called the Vexin — the Vikings had arrived in the 9th century to siege Paris, and by the 10th century had created Normandy under Rolt, the Dane, to settle there. King Philip Augustus had the tree cut down as negotiations for territory between Henry II were at an end (Kings John and Henry had controlled the Norman Barons).