Note to Þul Ása II 1III
[7] Týr: A war-god whose name was given to the rune t, which, according to Old Norse beliefs, was the rune of victory (cf. Sigrdr 6; see also Hym 33, Lok 37-40 and Gylf, SnE 2005, 25, 27-9, 50). He is also known as einhendi Áss ‘the one-handed god’ because he put his hand as a pledge into the mouth of the wolf Fenrir when the gods fettered him, and when they refused to release Fenrir, he bit Týr’s hand off (see Skm, SnE 1998, I, 19 and Gylf, SnE 2005, 25). The name of this god was originally the common noun týr m. ‘god’ (< Gmc *tīwaz), and this sense is preserved in such Óðinn-names as Farmatýr or Hroptatýr (see Þul Óðins 2/4, 3/6), and perhaps in some poetic compounds with ‑týr as the second element (see Marold 1992, 711-12 and Note to Eyv Hák 1/2I). As the name of the god, Týr frequently appears as a base-word in kennings for ‘man’.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- SnE 2005 = Snorri Sturluson. 2005. Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Marold, Edith. 1992. ‘Die Skaldendichtung als Quelle der Religionsgeschichte’. In Beck et al. 1992, 685-719.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 27 April 2024)
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=113> (accessed 27 April 2024)
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Óðins nǫfn 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 735.
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- R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Eyvindr skáldaspillir Finnsson, Hákonarmál 1’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 174.
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