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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 548 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TYR , the Scandinavian See also:

god of See also:battle. He is not a prominent figure in See also:Northern See also:mythology, for even in this See also:special capacity he is overshadowed by See also:Odin, and there are hardly any traces of See also:worship being paid to him. Among other See also:Teutonic peoples, however, he seems at one See also:time to have been a deity of consider-able importance. In Anglo-Saxon he was called Ti (Ti, Tiig, gen. Tiwes, whence " Tuesday ") and equated with the See also:Roman See also:Mars. He is also identified with the See also:German god mentioned more than once by See also:Tacitus, as well as in See also:inscriptions, by the name Mars. His Teutonic name is the same as the word for " god "in several other Indo-See also:European See also:languages (e.g. See also:Lat. diuus, Lith. devas, Skr. devas), and even in Old Norse the plural (tivar) was still used in the same sense. (See TEUTONIC PEOPLES § See also:Religion, ad fin.) (H. M.

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