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Donar's Oak
Jove's Oak (''interpretatio romana'' for Donar's Oak and therefore sometimes referred to as Thor's Oak) was a sacred tree of the Germanic pagans located in an unclear location around what is now the region of Hesse, Germany. According to the 8th century ''Vita Bonifatii auctore Willibaldi'', the Anglo-Saxon missionary Saint Boniface and his retinue cut down the tree earlier the same century. Wood from the oak was then reportedly used to build a church at the site dedicated to Saint Peter. Sacred trees and sacred groves were widely venerated by the Germanic peoples and scholars have linked this oak and others to the world tree in Norse mythology, Yggdrasil.
==Willibald's ''Life of Saint Boniface''==
According to Willibald's 8th century ''Life of Saint Boniface'', the felling of the tree occurred during Boniface's life earlier the same century at an unclear location at the time known as ''Gaesmere'' (see "theories regarding tree location below").〔Robinson (1916:63).〕
Although no date is provided, the felling may have occurred around 723 or 724.〔Emerton (2000:xiv).〕 Willibald's account is as follows (note that Robinson has translated ''robor Iobis'', "tree of Jove", as "Tree of Jupiter"):
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