Re: "Irmin" and Hermes

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tgpedersen
> To: cybalist@...
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 4:24 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: "Irmin" and Hermes
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> --- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
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> > Jörmunr < *ermun- is one of Odin's epithets in Scandinavian
> tradition. If you want to see it, go to this address, for example:
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> > http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/ugm/skindex/thul4b.html
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> > Piotr
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> And another of his epithets is Herjann < *herj-. So many

coincidences.

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> The craziest misunderstanding of all is the complex equation Irmin
= Arminius = Hermann, from which it is deduced that the Irminsul was
erected to commemorate "Hermann/Arminius", a kind of Ur-
Hermanndenkmal. The Saxon Irminsul was actually described
as "universalis columna, quasi sustinens omnia" (Rudolf of Fulda),
made of an huge tree trunk, and if it was not a representation of the
World Tree, the central pillar of the Universe, rather than a
boundary marker or anyone's monument, you can spear me to an ash tree.
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> Piotr

The first equation doesn't look all that crazy to me, although the
denkmal part does. Besides, you'd only have to hang in there eight
days ;-).

Mightn't it be "the column of Woden"?

Torsten