In Norse mythology Iðuna (Idun), was the Goddess of youth, fertility, regeneration and the wife of Bragi, the God of poetry. She was the keeper of the magic apples of immortality (apples are õunad in Estonian). The gods retained their vitality and health by eating apples from the gardens of Asgard. In Norse mythology, the gods and goddesses sprang from a mixed race and were not immortal. When the Gods felt themselves aging, they would go to Idunа for one of her apples, which restored their vitality and remain vigorous, beautiful, and young through countless ages. Idunа maintained golden apples in her magic box. And how much she would not give them away, the number of apples in her box remained unchanged.
Idunа is also the Goddess of the plant world. With the onset of Ragnarok, it disappears under the roots of the Yggdrasil mythical ash tree, disappearing from this world to return when the new life is reborn.
Bright Iduna, Maid immortal!
Standing at Valhalla’s portal,
In her casket has rich store
Of rare apples gilded o’er;
Those rare apples, not of Earth,
Ageing Æsir give fresh birth…
“When you arise in the morning think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” Marcus Aurelius
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