[8, 9] Týr Hristar ‘the Týr <god> of Hrist <valkyrie> [WARRIOR = Merlin]’: The name of the valkyrie, Hrist, functions, like the more common valkyrie-name Hildr, as a replacement for the concept ‘battle’, to create a warrior-kenning, with the base-word the name of the god Týr; cf. Meissner 273.