The Irminones.
Jǫrmun, the Viking Age Norse form of the name Irmin, can be found in a number of places in the Poetic Edda as a by-name for Odin. the Prose Edda states that Odin appeared first in Germany, and then spread up into the Ingvaeonic North and Scandinavian countries through what is now Denmark. This is counter to the modern idea that Odin was mostly a Scandinavian God.
The Irminones, also referred to as Herminones or Hermiones (Ancient Greek: Ἑρμίονες), were a large group of early Germanic tribes settling in the Elbe watershed and by the 1st century AD expanding into Bavaria, Swabia and Bohemia. Notably, this included the large sub-group of the Suevi, that itself contained many different tribal groups, but the Irminones also for example included the Chatti.
Irminonic Germanic is a term for one of the dialect groups ancestral to the West Germanic language family, especially the High German languages, which include modern Standard German. The name Irminones or Hermiones comes from Tacitus's Germania (AD 98), where he categorized them as one of the tribes descended from Mannus the 1st king, and noted that they lived in the interior of Germany.
The term Suebi is usually applied to all the groups that moved into the Irminonic area, though later in history (around 200 AD) the term Alamanni (meaning "all-men") became more commonly applied to the group. Germany is to this day named in Spanish as Alemania and in French as Allemagne from the name of the Alamanni tribe.
References; Grimm, Jacob Tacitus, Germania (1st century AD). Pliny Friedrich Maurer Prose Edda Poetic Edda Admin Gary.
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