…and ‘mantle’ (‘Mnt3‘) 1) is probably originally the word for the protective hedge – circular and as large as the one on probably many a wood-henge or barrow – around the tomb of Osiris…
…and the tree over the grave of Osiris, the iw-tree,2) seems to have been the original yew-tree…
…and notice how in both cases the Old English is a close match: probably Anglian, from East Denmark, but including highly respected refugees from the sacred islands where elements and practices of the Megalithic culture had been preserved … (the incoming Danes had recently taken those islands – and would soon take East Denmark)…
- Lebenbaumsymbolik im alten Ägypten, Edmund Hermsen, pp. 144-5
2) ibid. pp. 146-7