Vaagi (Vaak)

Not ‘weighing-scales’ as originally thought (vaag:vae or vaag:vaaki), but flowering-plants of the Inula genus, with three species growing in Estonia: aedvaak, the elecampane of multiple medico-mythical properties named after Helen of Troy from whose tears it sprung (botanists remain sceptical) and used in making absinthe, Inula helenium; pajuvaak (willow/osier vaak), the Irish fleabane or willowleaf yellowhead, I. salicina; and inglise vaak, the British yellowhead, I. britannica.