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To set fire to the wood, you need the help of the wind.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

A chip on the shoulder indicates wood higher up.

Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood.

A spoken word, carved wood.

Do not halloo till you are out of the wood.

One chops the wood, the other does the grunting.

One chops the wood, and the other shouts Oh, my back!

When wood breaks it can be repaired, but ivory breaks forever.

If envy would burn, there would be no need for wood.

Chop wood, carry water.

Home sweet home:

Mid pleasures and palaces
Though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble,
There's no place like home.
A charm from the skies
Seems to hallow us there,
Which seek thro' the world,
Is ne'er met with elsewhere.
Home,...

Horse cure spell

Phol (another name for Balder) and Odin were riding together when the horse of Balder dislocates its foot. Odin is saying as a result: "Bone to bone, blood to blood, limb to limb, as if they were glued". There are some images...

A man who was always complaining was quite rightly sent to hell. Why are you burning damp wood? was his first comment.

The woman who takes a wolf for a husband is always looking into the wood.

When the ass was invited to the wedding feast he said, They need more wood and water.

Peter, I am taking a ride, said the goose, when the fox was running into the wood with her.

It is not for my own sake, said the fox, that I say there is a good goose-green in the wood.

Your memory can let you down like it did to a Finn who was carving a wooden spoon.

Don't cry hurra! till your are over the hedge (till you are out of the wood).