Editing Irminones (section)

=== Classical ===
The name Irminones or Hermiones comes from [[Tacitus]]'s ''[[Germania (book)|Germania]]'' (AD 98), where he categorized them as one of the tribes that some people say were descended from [[Mannus]], and noted that they lived in the interior of [[Germania]]. Other [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] groups of tribes were the [[Ingaevones|Ingvaeones]], living on the coast, and [[Istvaeones]], who accounted for the rest.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0083:chapter=2 |title=Cornelius Tacitus, Germany and its Tribes, chapter 2 |editor1=Alfred John Church |editor2=William Jackson Brodribb |website=perseus.tufts.edu |access-date=16 April 2018}}</ref> Tacitus also mentioned the [[Suebi]] as a large grouping who included the [[Semnones]], the [[Quadi]], and the [[Marcomanni]], but he did not say precisely to which (if any) of the three nations they belonged.

[[Pomponius Mela]], in his ''Description of the World'' (III.3.31) described the Hermiones as the farthest people of [[Germania]], beyond both the [[Cimbri]] and [[Teutones]] who lived on the [[Codanus sinus]], which is understood today to have been his name for the [[Baltic Sea]] and [[Kattegat]], although it was described by him as a very large bay filled with islands, east of the [[Elbe]] river. Still farther east Mela describes the [[Sarmatians]] whom he places west of the [[Vistula]], and then the [[Scythians]] whom he places east of the Vistula.<ref>{{citation|title=Pomponius Mela's description of the world |translator-first=F.E. |translator-last=Romer|url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015042048507?urlappend=%3Bseq=121|author=Pomponius Mela|pages=109–117|hdl=2027/mdp.39015042048507?urlappend=%3Bseq=121 }}. Comments: {{harvnb|Christensen|2002|p=256}}. Latin text: https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/pomponius3.html</ref>

[[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]]'s ''Natural History'' (4.100) claimed that the Irminones included the [[Suebi]], [[Hermunduri]], [[Chatti]], and [[Cherusci]].