Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c17.s4.104

v1.c17.s4.104

Pinkerton, quoting Ptolemy (who was fifty years after Tacitus), says there were six nations in Yeutland or Jutland, the country of the Juts, of whom were the Sablingii (Suevi,² or Suiones), the Chatti and Hermandri, who extended to the estuary of the Elbe and Weser. There they erected the pillar Irmansul to “ the god of war,” regarding which Sammes ³ observes : “ some will have it to be Mars his pillar, others Hermes Saul, or the pillar of Hermes or Mercury ” ; and he naturally asks, “ how did the Saxons come to be acquainted with the Greek name of Mercury ? ”