TYR FROM NORSE MYTHOLOGY

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Tyr, according to various sources, was the son of Odin and Frigga (though some stories will say his mother was a giantess who was a personification of the sea itself). He is the God of various things: war, courage, victory. The Romans tended to try and identify him with Mars, who was their God of War, but Tyr was more than just that: some say that because his name is a derivative of the root word that made up Zeus, he was a sky God. Some sources, such as Germano-Roman dedications, see him as a God of both sovereignty and order. He was known as well as a God of honor, and was one of the twelve main deities of Asgard. Tyr even had a throne in the council hall of Glads-heim.