A Scots Pine would be a pretty odd choice as well, though it would at least have some foliage. While gnawing at the root, he would insult the giant eagle that sat utop Yggdrasill through a squirrel named Ratatoskr, who would run messages between the two creatures daily. A larch would be a very odd choice for a Christmas tree, as it is a deciduous conifer and in winter has no needles. Nidhogg (originally spelled Nidhoggr) was a dragon which, throughout the ages, gnawled on one of the three roots of the World Tree Yggdrasill. One thing which did strike me (or at least my inner pedant) was the suggestion in the reading that the tree involved was a larch tree, though I picked up a reference elsewhere to its perhaps being a Scots pine or “Scotch Fir”. I don’t think I have come across it since, so it was good to revisit this enjoyable story. I read Lucky’s Grove in a ghost story collection when I was, oh, early teens maybe, and it certainly made an impression on me at the time. Mike and Will – I am delighted that you are back! I have really missed your podcasts in the last few months and was becoming just a tiny bit concerned whether life and responsibilities were just too overwhelming for you to carry on. He does look a bit intimidating actually! The intimidating wolf that adorns one of the Christmas lights was presumably based on the wolf from the Disney short film Three Little Pigs (1933). This excellent article by Jason Lineham analyses both Lucky’s Grove and another Wakefield tale called the The First Sheaf from a modern folk horror perspective. The quote that starts this story is liberally adapted by Wakefield from part of these 11th-century Icelandic works. You can read some biographical information about Wakefield himself on Wikipedia. Wakefield collection that contains this story. If you want to read this story, your best bet is to pick up the Ash Tree Press ebook of The Clock Strikes Twelve, the H.R. The Clock Strikes Twelve (Ash Tree Press).But who’s that hiding behind the Christmas tree?īig thanks to Julia Morgan for allowing us to use extracts from her excellent Youtube reading of this story. Ho ho, and indeed ho! In this special festive episode, Mike and Will pull on their wellies and wander straight into Lucky’s Grove by H.R.
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