Re: eddie/may
It is true. You're just used to paying attention in a different way. Plants require breathing and slower listening. [...] Deal.
I can most certainly blame you for that.
You can make a dye from them. The flowers, not the soldiers. It's a greyish sort of color, nothing spectacular, but it takes well in wool, so it's good for dyeing cloaks like the soldiers wore. Soldiers -> battle -> Odin. The belief that they would be protected, thus receiving the grace/favor of the god.