Norse mythology
Tyr
The One-Handed God of Law
- Mythology
- Norse mythology
- Group
- Sacrifice · Fate · Aesir · Sworn Bond · Ruler
- Appears in
- Lokasenna: Loki's Flyting · The Binding of Fenrir · The Children of Loki · Ragnarok: Twilight of the Gods · Loki Bound · The Death of Baldur
- Places
- Asgard
- Objects
- Gleipnir
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Tyr is the one-handed god of law, oaths, and just war, his name surviving in Tuesday. When the gods bind the wolf Fenrir with the ribbon Gleipnir, the suspicious beast demands a pledge of good faith: a hand in his jaws. Only Tyr steps forward, laying his right hand between those teeth. The wolf cannot break free, and Tyr loses the hand at the wrist, paying with his own flesh for the binding. He governs the assembly and the sworn contract, and at Ragnarok he fights and falls against the hound Garmr.
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- Who is Tyr?
- Tyr is the one-handed god of law, oaths, and just war, his name surviving in Tuesday. When the gods bind the wolf Fenrir with the ribbon Gleipnir, the suspicious beast demands a pledge of good faith: a hand in his jaws. Only Tyr steps forward, laying his right hand between those teeth.
- Which mythology does Tyr belong to?
- Tyr belongs to Norse mythology.
- Which stories does Tyr appear in?
- Tyr appears in Lokasenna: Loki's Flyting, The Binding of Fenrir, The Children of Loki, Ragnarok: Twilight of the Gods, Loki Bound, The Death of Baldur, told as chaptered audio dramas in MythologyNow.
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