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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 796 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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IRMIN, or IRMINUS

IRMIN, or IRMINUS , in See also:

Teutonic See also:

MYTHOLOGY

mythology, a deified eponymic See also:

hero of the Herminones. The See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief seat of his See also:

WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship was Irminsal, or Ermensul, in See also:

Westphalia, destroyed in 772 by See also:

Charlemagne. Huge wooden posts (Irmin pillars) were raised to his See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour, and were regarded as sacred by the See also:

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