Þul Ása II 1III/7 — Týr ‘Týr’
Enn skal telja ása heiti:
þar es Yggr ok Þórr ok Yngvi-Freyr,
Víðarr ok Baldr, Váli ok Heimdallr;
þá es Týr ok Njǫrðr; tel ek næst Braga,
Hǫðr, Forseti; hér es øfstr Loki.
Skal enn telja heiti ása: þar es Yggr ok Þórr ok Yngvi-Freyr, Víðarr ok Baldr, Váli ok Heimdallr; þá es Týr ok Njǫrðr; ek tel næst Braga, Hǫðr, Forseti; hér es Loki øfstr.
I shall further list the names of the gods: there is Yggr <= Óðinn> and Þórr and Yngvi-Freyr, Víðarr and Baldr, Váli and Heimdallr; then there are Týr and Njǫrðr; I list Bragi next, Hǫðr, Forseti; here is Loki last.
notes
[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’.