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Berkano
- Literal meaning
- birch
- Associated concepts
- growth · nurture · motherhood
- Ætt
- Týr's ætt
Berkano is the birch, one of the first trees to green again after the Nordic winter. The Anglo-Saxon rune poem describes it as fruitless yet full of branches, fertile within even when it doesn't look it. It stands for new growth, what starts over after a pause.