Re: "Irmin" and Hermes

> 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"?

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> There must have been some kind of association, like that between
Odin and Ygdrasill in Scandinavian lore. While I think that the Irmin-
part of "Irminsul" originally referred to the cosmic dimension of
the column, the fact that Irmin was also Wodan's byname suggests at
least the possibility of interpreting the name as "Wodan's pillar".
>
> Piotr
>
How about this: Jordanes "populus immensus" is a later emendation of
an unfamiliar "populus irmenus", and then that epithet stuck and
spread (since it was approximately accurate)?

Torsten