Tyr is "a warrior god, and the protector of champions and brave men."
(Northern Antiquities OR, AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, RELIGION AND LAWS, MARITIME EXPEDITIONS AND DISCOVERIES, LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE OF THE ANCIENT SCANDINAVIANS, (DANES, SWEDES, NORWEGIANS AND ICELANDERS.) WITH INCIDENTAL NOTICES RESPECTING OUR SAXON ANCESTORS. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF M. MALLET BY BISHOP PERCY. Page 94-95 @ http://google.cat/books?id=4nRkd0H5fWsC&pg=PA92&focus=viewport&dq=editions:NYPL33433069128191&lr=&output=html_text)
Days of the Week
From Tyr is derived the name given to the third day of the week in most of the Teutonic languages:
- Latin - Dies Martis
- Old Norse - Tirsdagr, Tisdagr
- Swedish - Tisdag
- Danish - Tirsdag
- German - Dienstag
- Dutch - Dingsdag
- Anglo-Saxon - Tyrsdaeg, Tyvesdag, Tivesdaeg
- English - Tuesday.
(Northern Antiquities OR, AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, RELIGION AND LAWS, MARITIME EXPEDITIONS AND DISCOVERIES, LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE OF THE ANCIENT SCANDINAVIANS, (DANES, SWEDES, NORWEGIANS AND ICELANDERS.) WITH INCIDENTAL NOTICES RESPECTING OUR SAXON ANCESTORS. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF M. MALLET BY BISHOP PERCY. Page 95 @ http://google.cat/books?id=4nRkd0H5fWsC&pg=PA92&focus=viewport&dq=editions:NYPL33433069128191&lr=&output=html_text)
Rendered as other deities
Tacitus rendered Tyr as the Roman Mars, after their similar attributes.
(The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Tacitus @ https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7524/7524-h/7524-h.htm, footnote 64)