Irminsulmodern

Sacred pillar of the Saxons — a world-pillar holding up the sky.

Tradition: germanic, saxon · Period: Destroyed by Charlemagne, 772 CE (Royal Frankish Annals)

Modern history: No depiction survives. The familiar curled-top pillar is a 20th-c. reconstruction (from the Externsteine relief).

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• Irminsul

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