Note 5 — BOOK VIII.
Reading edition
—Page 334, stanza xxviii.
Stands my great Sire—the Saxon's Herman-Saul.
Herman-Saul (or Saule), often corruptly written Irminsula, Armensula, &c., the name of the celebrated Teuton Idol, representing an armed warrior on a column, destroyed by Charlemagne, a.d. 772.