Coming down to later times, Virgil speaks of a sacred tree in a manner which Grimm[16] considers highly suggestive of the Yggdrasil: "Jove's own tree, High as his topmost boughs to heaven ascend, So low his roots to hell's dominions tend." As already mentioned, numerous legendary stories have become interwoven with the myth of the Yggdrasil, the following sacred one combining the idea of tree-descent.

According to a _trouvere_ of the thirteenth century,[17] "The tree of life was, a thousand years after the sin of the first man, transplanted from the Garden of Eden to the Garden of Abraham, and an angel came from heaven to tell the patriarch that upon this tree should hang the freedom of mankind.

But first from the same tree of life Jesus should be born, and in the following wise.

First was to be born a knight, Fanouel, who, through the scent merely of the flower of that living tree, should be engendered in the womb of a virgin; and this knight again, without knowing woman, should give birth to St.Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary.

Both these wonders fell out as they were foretold.