Apple Hold's History

The Seeds from Idunn’s Apples

It so happened that the day Idunn was abducted by Loki, she accidently dropped one of her apples out side the gate of AAsgard. Loki wanted to turn her over to the Storm Giant Thiassi, who wanted to obtain possession of her, and of the magic fruit that would give the Gods eternal youth.

A little later a mischievously fairy by the name Blue Fungi Nose picked up the apple simply because it was there, and he was hungry. He had just been thrown out of Alfhiem (now known as Alfenheim) by the God Freyr, for stealing seeds from Freyr’s sunflowers, assaulting a fairy maiden while she was taking a bath, and drinking to much blue fungi brew. He looked at the apple, and decided to cross the rainbow bridge called Bifrost, to go to Midgard for some adventures.  On the top of Bifrost he could see a nice spot to eat the apple- If he turned left just after the bridge, there was a nice hill overlooking the sea, so he went there to sit down, and he took his knife to cut the apple into slices, so that he could eat it. The apple was very tasty, but he couldn’t eat all of it, and he could feel a change in his body. He started to age, and in a few hours he was so old that the moss had started to grow on him.  He had no idea that it was one of Idunn’s apples he had been eating, and he didn’t know that eating her apples after crossing the Rainbow Bridge Bifrost would cause him his death. 

The seeds from the apple started germinating. Some years went by! The seeds had grown into big strong apple trees there on the hill, and one day the apple trees started to bear apples. At the time the apples was ripe and sweet an old woman went by the trees, and sat down to rest in the shadow. She picked an apple from the tree she was resting under, and cut the apple in two half. Much to her surprise she found two small fairy babies inside the apple. It had been her misfortune in life never to get any children, so she started to cry of happiness when she saw the babies. She picked all the apples from the apple trees and carefully cut them into half, to see if she could find more babies.  When she was done she had 12 small fairies all wrapped in apple leaves, and put in small cradles she created from tiny twigs. She gathered the apples and carried them back home to her cottage, where she made a lovely sweet apple juice so that she could feed the fairy babies.

The babies grew fast, and became beautiful and strong fairy knights and maidens. They build a castle in the apple tree that they named Apple Hold. The old woman died of old age and happiness, and was laid to rest under the apple tree by her mourning children.  For every teardrop they fell a new flower would bloom, and an enchanted garden grew under the apple tree. Apple Hold was built on love and it is said that; inside the Rainbow Tower you will find a bowel of apple seeds. The seeds are placed there so those who are in despair can have a seed to grow their own apple tree of love. If the tree is looked after with tender love, it will bear the apples with fairy babies inside, for you to love!