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Examples
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We learn from the historians of Saxony, that the ‘Frey Feld gericht,’ or Free Field Court of Corbey, was, in Pagan times, under the supremacy of the Priests of the Eresburgh, the Temple which contained the Irminsule, or pillar of Irmin.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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"By the beard of Irmin, I had never a Jew to make a fighting-man of."
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By the beard of Irmin, there never was fortune gained so cheap.
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"Ha! What! By the beard of Irmin!" the latter cried, in astonishment, rising to a sitting posture.
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Hermod delighted in battle, and was often called "the valiant in battle," and confounded with the god of the universe, Irmin.
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Irmin was said to possess a ponderous brazen chariot, in which he rode across the sky along the path which we know as the Milky Way, but which the ancient Germans designated as Irmin's Way.
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Hallinskide and Irmin, for at times he takes Odin's place and is identified with that god, as well as with the other sword-gods, Er,
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A selection of Irmin's work has been arranged for orchestra by Greg Cohen and Eyvind Kang and will be performed by the Orchestra Schloßfestspiele Ludwigsburg and conducted by Irmin Schmidt himself, with special apprearance by solo artists such as Markus Stockhausen (trumpet), Gerd
Side-Line news feed 2010
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Before Irmin founded the now legendary German band CAN in 1968 he received a formal musical education and studied composition, piano, conducting and music ethnology.
Side-Line news feed 2010
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Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo contains a camera technique developed by Irmin Roberts that has been imitated and re-used many times by filmmakers, wherein the image appears to "stretch".
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