She points out that buckets of apples were found in the Oseberg ship burial site in Norway , and that fruit and nuts ( Iðunn having been described as being transformed into a nut in Skáldskaparmál ) have been found in the early graves of the Germanic peoples in England and elsewhere on the continent of Europe , which may have had a symbolic meaning , and that nuts are still a recognized symbol of fertility in southwest England .
She also remarks that fruit and nuts ( Iðunn having been described as changing into a nut in Skáldskaparmál ) have been discovered in the early graves of the Germanic peoples in England .