'ok er hann einhendr': Tÿr's Enhanced Functionality.

From the slim dossier of mythological lore concerning the senior Norse god Týr, which includes Loki's mockery in Lokasenna, a single myth emerges: his binding of the wolf Fenrir and concurrent loss of his sword and oath-taking hand in the wolf's maw. A Norse model of the surrender of a body part in...

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Published in:	Neophilologus Vol. 100; no. 2; pp. 245 - 256
Main Author:	Sayers, William
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Apr2016
Subjects:	Tyr (Norse deity) Fenrir (Norse mythology) Old Norse literature Norse mythology Power (Social sciences) in literature
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost