As we all know
HERMAN and
ARMIN are two different names etymologically not related at all. But at one point of time (I read this was in the late 18th century) the two got mixed up and
ARMIN was replaced by
HERMANN in literature and then in everybody's mind.
Friedrich Klopstock wrote a trilogy of plays on ARMINIUS the Germanic prince who defeated the
Roman army in the year 9 AD.
Was Klopstock the first one to mix
ARMIN with
HERMANN and to call ARMINIUS
HERMANN? Where did he get the idea from?
Andy