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Natural PlacesSite Name: The Mollestad OakCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 16.95 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Vest-Agder Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Birkeland Nearest Village: Mollestad
Latitude: 58.319476N Longitude: 8.190469E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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The Mollestad oak is a spirit tree, "vettetre" or "vette eik" is another therm for this tree. Several legends of unatural growth and underground beeings or mytological creatures are told about this tree. It was a common belief that ancestral spirits still were living inside the tree and lived on as a guardian spirit inside the trees. These trees occur in several places in Norway and in Scandinavia and the trees were called "vettetre". In the past the farmers put out food, milk and beer to the tree as sacrifice to these spirits. Not doing this would be bad luck for the farm and this custom have been continued up until this day, the first beer that was tapped had to be sacrificed to the tree and if it was ever damaged it would be a disaster for the farm.
The tree has been marked with information posters and a small parking lot.
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