This contest requires we write either a story or poem that includes three words from a prescribed list - I chose four of the words: thistle, oak, purple and cloak.
The oak tree has been worshiped by the Greeks, Romans, Celts, Druids, Norsemen, and just about every other culture and is associated with a list of gods, including Zeus and Janus. The thistle is not without its own mythic fame. It is the national emblem of Scotland because in the Middle Ages, when the Norse were mounting a surprise attack on Scotland, legend has it that a barefoot Norse soldier stepped on a thorny thistle, screamed in pain, and thus alerted the Scots to the attempted invasion and allowed them to fight off their would-be conquerors.

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