Results: Trysting
Trysting trees are trees of any species which have, through their individual prominence, appearance, or position, been chosen as traditional or popular meeting places for specific purposes. Names, dates, and symbols are sometimes found carved on the bark. Wikipedia is the source for this survey.
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Many other forms of landscape features have served as trysting places, such as the Lochmaben Stone on the border of Scotland and England. It was a well-known, well recognized and easily located 'marker' on the Scottish Marches. A number of functions were performed there prior to the Union of the Crowns, such as arranging truces, exchanging prisoners, etc. Have you ever visited a local trysting place where you live?
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A 'tryst' is a time and a place for a meeting, especially of lovers. In Old French the word meant an appointed station in hunting. It is likely from an Old Norse source sharing its origin with 'traust', and the Modern English 'trust' (and thus also related to the Old English 'treowe' which survives as the modern 'true'). A trysting day is an arranged day of meeting or assembling, as of soldiers, friends, lovers and the like. Have you ever had a tryst with a love interest?
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Many trees have through their isolation, appearance or position been chosen as popular meeting places for young courting couples, soldiers called to gather at a distinctive venue prior to battle, etc. Many a romantic story features trysting trees, including the tales of Robin Hood and his merry men. In the 1845 version of the story, Maid Marian and Robin Hood are buried together under their "Trysting Tree". Scott's "Ivanhoe" and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The White Company" make several references to trysting trees. In Sir Walter Scott's "Waverley", the large decaying trunk of a trysting tree lies on Tully-Veolan moor and is still used as a meeting place. Have you ever seen a prominent tree on a map?
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Which of these famous trysting trees are you aware of?
There is a trysting tree to the memory of Robin Hood in the small wood just to the right-hand side of Kiveton Lane at the north exit of Kiveton Park in South Yorkshire, England.
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The Trysting Tree at Oregon State University, in the US, was a large Gray Poplar located southeast of Benton Hall, and was a popular gathering spot on campus.
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In America, the San Juan Capistrano 'Trysting Tree', a sycamore, is connected with the story of one notorious Tiburcio Vásquez. He used the tree as a base to meet and divide up the spoils after a raid, secure food, and then head for the hills to hide out.
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In Scotland, the 'Auld Yew Tree of Loudoun' was a place where the Earl of Loudoun, colleagues and advisers met to discuss drafts of the Treaty of Union with England in 1603; it was also the tree to which Lord James of Loudoun addressed letters to his 'gudewife' during his exile in Holland.
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