Iringsweg

The Iringsweg (the Iringsstraße) is after the delivery of the axes and Thüringer the designation of the Milky Way . According to Ernst Zinner , it did not appear until the "late pagan period".

The name is based on Iring , an epithet of the Thuringian god of heaven, light and guardian, which corresponds to Heimdall walking on earth . Iring has also been transformed into a human hero; he is a character from the Iringlied as well as from the medieval Nibelungenlied , where he is defeated in the fight with Hagen. According to Widukind von Corvey , Iring was a Thuringian warrior who defected to Dieterich, King of the Franks, and killed his King Irminfried .

Major royal roads in England and Sweden were also called Iringsweg. Often the names Iring and Irmin alternate in the names of earthly and heavenly roads.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Zinner: Investigations into the history of astronomy. OOuJ Online
2. ↑ Iringsweg , in: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 10. Leipzig 1907, pp. 11-12. On-line
3. ^ Res gesta Saxonicae I, 13.
4. ↑ Jakob Grimm: German Mythology. Volume 1, Göttingen, 1854, p. 332.
5. ↑ Karl Simrock : The Edda - Nordic Mythology and Heroes' Poems: The older and younger along with the mythical stories of the Skalda translated and accompanied with explanations. 3rd edition, Stuttgart 1864.