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IRMIN, or IRMINUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 796 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IRMIN, or IRMINUS  , in Teutonic
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mythology, a deified eponymic hero of the Herminones . The chief seat of his worship was Irminsal, or Ermensul, in Westphalia, destroyed in 772 by Charlemagne . Huge wooden posts (Irmin pillars) were raised to his honour, and were regarded as sacred by the
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Saxons .

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