Tiwaz rune

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The t-rune ᛏ is named after Tyr, and was identified with this god. The reconscructed Proto-Germanic name is Tîwaz. The rune is sometimes also referred to as Teiwaz, or spelling variants.

1 Comparisons
2 Fascist use
3 Neopagan use
4 Divination

[edit] Comparisons

The rune was also compared with Mars as in the Icelandic rune poem:

ᛏ Týr er einhendr áss

ok ulfs leifar

ok hofa hilmir.

Mars tiggi.

Tyr is a one-handed god,

and leavings of the wolf

and prince of temples.

In the Anglo-Saxon rune poem however, the same rune is identified with polaris:

ᛏ Tir biþ tacna sum, healdeð trywa wel

wiþ æþelingas; a biþ on færylde

ofer nihta genipu, næfre swiceþ.

ᛏ Tir is a star, it keeps faith well

with athelings, always on its course

over the mists of night it never fails.

(c.f. Shakespeare's sonnet 116)

The charm (alu) on the Lindholm amulet, dated 2nd to 4th century

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[edit] Fascist use

As with other runes, the Tyr rune has been used as a fascist symbol by National Socialists. It was the badge of the Sturmabteilung training schools, the Reichsführerschulen in Nazi Germany. In Neo-Nazism it has appeared, together with the Sol rune, in the emblem of the Kassel-based think tank Thule Seminar. Possibly based on this, it also has appeared in the previous logo of the unpolitical fashion label Thor Steinar. (It might be added that both uses were incorrect, since both Thor and Thule would be spelled with a thorn character.)

[edit] Neopagan use

The Tyr rune is also used by adherents of Asatru or Heathenry with reference to ancestral implications of the symbol, in general free of political symbolism.

[edit] Divination

In modern systems of runic divination, the Tyr rune symbolizes "warrior spirit", and qualities like truth, justice, duty, discipline, responsibility, etc. (Northern Mysteries & Magick by Freya Aswynn)

Rune alphabet

Elder Fuþark:

ᚠ

ᚢ

ᚦ

ᚨ

ᚱ

ᚲ

ᚷ

ᚹ

ᚺ

ᚾ