Loki then took hold of the mistletoe, broke it off and went to the thing.

A few episodes in season 3 hinted that he liked Diana, such as in one of the Christmas episodes he invited her under the mistletoe and actually went on a friendly date with her.

According to custom, the mistletoe must not touch the ground between its cutting and its removal as the last of Christmas greens at Candlemas ; it may remain hanging through the year, often to preserve the house from lightning or fire, until it is replaced the following Christmas Eve.

Their main food is fruit, which they eat from early summer ( strawberries, mulberries, and serviceberries ) through late summer and fall ( raspberries, blackberries, cherries, and honeysuckle berries ) into late fall and winter ( juniper berries, grapes, crabapples, mountain ash fruits, rose hips, cotoneaster fruits, dogwood berries, and mistletoe berries ) ( MacKinnon and Phillipps 2000, Witmer and Avery 2003 ).

Höðr took the mistletoe from Loki and, following Loki's directions, shot at Baldr.

Tricked and guided by Loki, he shot the mistletoe arrow which was to slay the otherwise invulnerable Baldr.

According to the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, the goddess Frigg made everything in existence swear never to harm Baldr, except for the mistletoe which she found too young to demand an oath from.

Loki, upon finding out about Baldr's one weakness, made a missile from mistletoe, and helped Höðr shoot it at Baldr.

The death of the god Baldr is recounted in chapter 49, where the mistletoe that is used to kill Baldr is described as growing west of Valhalla.

Each arrow overshot his head ( 1902 ) by Elmer Boyd Smith, depicting the blind god Höðr shooting his brother, the god Baldr, with a mistletoe arrow

In the 13th century Prose Edda, due to the scheming of Loki, the god Baldr is killed by his brother, the blind god Höðr, by way of a mistletoe projectile, despite the attempts of Baldr's mother, the goddess Frigg, to have all living things and inanimate objects swear an oath not to hurt Baldr after Baldr had troubling dreams of his death.

In the Gesta Danorum version of the story, Baldr and Höðr are rival suitors, and Höðr kills Baldr with a sword named Mistilteinn ( Old Norse " mistletoe ").

The disguised Loki asks if nothing can hurt Baldr, and Frigg reveals that only mistletoe can, for it seemed to her too young to demand an oath from.

After this, Loki immediately disappears, and subsequently engineers the death of Baldr with a mistletoe projectile.

Initiating a program to control dwarf mistletoe on several hundred thousand acres of selected better stands of young softwood sawtimber on better growing sites.

One of the most studied applications has been the use of mistletoe extracts in cancer therapy.

However, there is limited evidence that mistletoe's effects on the immune system help the body fight cancer .... At present, the use of mistletoe cannot be recommended outside the context of well-designed clinical trials.

In New Zealand scientists discovered that three genera of native bees have evolved to open flower buds of the native mistletoe Peraxilla tetrapetala.

However, when observing the native bees in the Canterbury province in the South Island, the scientists were astonished to see the bees biting the top off the buds, then pushing with their legs, occasionally popping open the buds to allow the bees to harvest the nectar and pollen, and therefore aid in the pollination of the mistletoe which is in decline in New Zealand.

It is called mistletoe, and it seemed too young for me to demand its oath.

Some mistletoe pollen was also found in the stomach, indicating that Lindow Man died in around March or April.

Robert Chambers, in his 1832 work, Book of Days notes that " two popular observances belonging to Christmas are more especially derived from the worship of our pagan ancestors — the hanging up of the mistletoe and the burning of the Yule log.

Numerous other words for twigs and boughs abound, including tān, which still surves as the "- toe " in mistletoe.

Examples of parasites include the plants mistletoe and cuscuta, and organisms such as leeches.

The parasitic plant Pacific mistletoe ( Phoradendron villosum ), which commonly grows on this oak, produces berries which attract birds as well.

* Haustorial roots: roots of parasitic plants that can absorb water and nutrients from another plant, such as in mistletoe ( Viscum album ) and dodder.

Parasitic organisms range from the macroscopic mistletoe, a parasitic plant, to microscopic internal parasites such as cholera.

Parasitic and semiparasitic plants growing on other plants ( mistletoe is well known ) are not " true " epiphytes ( a designation usually given to fully autotrophic epiphytes ), but are still epiphytic in habit.

European mistletoe, Viscum album is readily recognized by its smooth-edged oval evergreen leaves borne in pairs along the woody stem, and waxy white berries in dense clusters of 2 to 6.

Parasitism has evolved only nine times in the plant kingdom ; of those, the parasitic mistletoe habit has evolved independently five times: Misodendraceae, Loranthaceae, and Santalaceae, including the former separate families Eremolepidaceae and Viscaceae.

Species more or less completely parasitic include the leafless quintral, Tristerix aphyllus, which lives deep inside the sugar-transporting tissue of a spiny cactus, appearing only to show its tubular red flowers, and the genus Arceuthobium ( dwarf mistletoe ; Santalaceae ) which has reduced photosynthesis ; as an adult, it manufactures only a small proportion of the sugars it needs from its own photosythesis but as a seedling it actively photosynthesizes until a connection to the host is established.

Most mistletoe seeds are spread by birds, such as the Mistle Thrush in Europe, the Phainopepla in southwestern North America, and Dicaeum of Asia and Australia.

Taking the path behind the Throne Room to the building directly beyond it, the Portrait Gallery, I went right at the end of it, through a garden to a small building at the back -- a sitting room furnished with low blue divans, its floor covered with carpets, its ceiling painted with gold squares and floral designs.

His father-in-law had died while he was away, and he went directly to Toulouse to take possession.

He drew his explanations from field studies conducted directly before he went to work on the founding geology text.

Allen went directly to the fort commander's quarters, seeking to force his surrender.

In December 1929, after nearly two years in Paris, Blair returned to England and went directly to his parents ' house in Southwold, which was to remain his base for the next five years.

In all likelihood, he went directly from Ta ' izz to the important trading port of Aden, arriving around the beginning of 1329 or 1331.

In an alternative story he went directly to Tarquinii with two of his sons ; the third, Sextus, attempted to resume control of Gabii, but was assassinated.

In the suborbital flight, the space craft went directly from launch to re-entry at the highest point ( point E on the picture ); in the orbital mission on the other hand, the craft went into an orbit around the Earth.

After 1871 Masurians who expressed sympathy for Poland were deemed " national traitors " by German nationalists ( this increased especially after 1918 ) According to Stefan Berger after 1871 the Masurians in the German Empire were seen in a view that while acknowledging their " objective " Polishness ( in terms of culture and language ) they felt " subjectively " German and thus should be tightly integrated into German nation-state ; to Berger this argument went directly against the German nationalist demands in Alsace where Alsatians were declared German despite their " subjective " choice.

On 24 August a 10-year non-aggression pact was signed with provisions that included: consultation ; arbitration if either party disagreed ; neutrality if either went to war against a third power ; no membership of a group " which is directly or indirectly aimed at the other.

He never went out on the stump to campaign, even during elections ; he rarely spoke directly to ordinary voters about policies and issues.

Gladstone went beyond image by appealing directly to the people.

The sewage went through channels directly into the Po, for which the European Environment Agency cited the city.

He said he went directly home, lay down on his bed, and prepared to die with the feeling that maybe it was his time, and that he could not fight it, so he surrendered himself to God.

He drew his explanations from field studies conducted directly before he went to work on the founding geology text, and developed Hutton's idea that the earth was shaped entirely by slow-moving forces still in operation today, acting over a very long period of time.

He subsequently went around several layers of superior officers, and in 1947 went directly to the Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, by chance also a former submariner.

The Empress went so far as saying directly to Marie Antoinette that she was no longer pretty, and had lost all her grace.

On August 13, 2004, Hurricane Charley went directly through Hardee County.

The film's patriotic theme helped recruit soldiers ; young men sometimes went directly from the movie theater to military enlistment offices.

The most notable response to the call was in the Walsenburg coal district of Colorado, where 1, 132 miners stayed off the job, and only 35 went to work, a participation rate which led directly to the Colorado coal strike of 1927.

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Quoting directly from the Electronic Arts press release announcing the Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn expansion, Ultima Online was " The first MMORPG to reach the 100, 000 subscriber base, far exceeding that of any game that went before it ".