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Earrings in the shape of the Germanic Irminsul.
Here you can buy a pair of expressive earrings made in the shape of the Germanic world ash tree, the Irminsul.
The Irminsul was a sanctuary of the pagan Saxons that was destroyed by the Franks in 772 at the behest of Charlemagne as a prelude to the Saxon Wars.
The name Irminsul comes etymologically from irmin = large and sul = pillar, thus denoting a large pillar. According to the Frankish annals, the Irminsul stood at some distance from the Eresburg near what is now Obermarsberg.
The dimensions of the Irminsul earrings are 5 x 3.5 cm including the ear hooks.
You can buy the Irminsul earrings in high-quality bronze or in genuine silver-plated.
The earrings are supplied as a pair.
The monk Rudolf of Fulda wrote in 863 in De miraculis sancti Alexandri about the figure of the Irminsul: "They also worshipped in the open air a vertically erected tree trunk of no small size, which they called in their native language Irminsul', which in Latin means "columna universalis", and which in a sense carries the universe." According to the described meaning of the Irminsul, to carry the whole universe, the Irminsul can thus probably be seen as a statue of the world ash Yggdrasil from Germanic mythology.
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