Note 112 — THE BOTATHEN GHOST[102]
Reading edition
Compare the lines on Merlin in “The Quest of the Sangraal”—
“He raised his prophet-staff: that runic rod, The stem of Igdrasil—the crutch of Raun,”
to which Hawker appends the following note: “Igdrasil, the mystic tree, the ash of the Keltic ritual. The Raun, or Rowan, is also the ash of the mountain, another magic wood of the northern nations.”