Óðinn (Odin) is clearly presented as the chief of the Norse gods in the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, but today people often ask if Týr (Tyr) was ever the Vikings' main god. This video looks at the origin of this question, and looks at some aspect of Tyr, and the evolution of the Old Norse Pantheon, to help understand what happened over time to evolve the pantheons of the North Western European gods.
Bibliography with page references where appropriate...
Georges Dumezil, L'idéologie tripartie des Indo-Européens (Collection Latomus, Vol. xxxi), Bruxelles (Berchem), 1958. Pp.32-33
Liberman, A. (2016) In Prayer and Laughter. Essays on Medieval Scandinavian and Germanic Mythology, Literature, and Culture. Paleograph Press.
Lincoln, B. (1998) ‘Rewriting the German War God : Georges Dumézil , Politics and Scholarship in the Late 1930s’, History of Religions, 37(3), pp. 187-208.
Lincoln, B. (1986) Myth, cosmos, and society. Harvard University Press.
Lyle, E. (1982) ‘Dumezil ’ s Three Functions and Indo-European Cosmic Structure’, History of Religions, 22(1), pp. 25-44.
Artwork: Mamontova (Fiverr)
Chapters
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0:00 Introduction
0:49 Was Tyr ever the head of the Old Norse pantheon?
2:43 When would this have happened?
3:58 Why do people think Tyr was chief god?
5:17 What complicates the answer to Tyr vs Odin?
6:37 The clues from Perkunas, Fjörgyn and Thunoraz
9:23 What else do we know of Tyr and contradictions in our knowledge
11:11 War gods and Sky gods
13:12 The Romans weren't a friendly bunch of people
13:45 Place names continued
14:24 Tyr's day or Mars day
15:34 Inscriptions and their inference
17:35 The Tyr Rune
18:41 The story of Tyr's one hand
20:04 What losing a hand can tell about a man's position in society
22:31 So where is Odin in all this?
24:00 So what did happen and conclusion
16 июн 2024