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Our latest poll - Which God lost one of his hands?


Which God lost one of his hands?

 

Obviously the answer should have been Tyr!

In the Lokasenna it is told that Tyr lost his hand to Fenrir the wolf and in the Gylfaginning Snorri Sturluson tells us more about this.

One of Loki's three children is Fenrir and Odin send out the other Gods to bring him these three children. The wolf was raised by the Aesir but only Tyr had the courage to feed him. Because the Gods knew that the wolf was destined to bring them misfortune they sought a solution. They bound him with a chain called Loeding, butFenrir broke this chain easily. Then the Aesir made a stronger chain which was called Dromi, but Fenrir again broke the chain. Finally Odin send Skirnir to the dwarfs and had a chain made called Gleipnir. This chain was made of 6 different parts: the sound of cat feet, the beard of a woman, the roots of a mountain, the sinews of a bear, the breath of a fish and the saliva of a bird. With this they bound Fenirir. But the wolf didn't trust it. The chain looked very frail, so he thought he might be tricked and wanted that one of the Gods put his or her hand in his mouth as insurance. Tyr was the one who put his hand in Fenrirs mouth and when the wolf tried to break the chain he didn't succeed and bit of Tyr's hand.


Thursday is named after?


Our latest poll seems to have created some confusion among those who answered the question. This can be seen by viewing the results page http://www.ggg-world.net/index.php/component/poll/17-thursday-is-named-after where some of you answered the question by chosing that thursday is named after *Tiwaz/Tyr, Wodan/Odin and Tuisto.

The answer should have been: Thursday is named after Donar/Thor.

We will explain why.


In the interpretatio germanica the fifth day is called Thursday. The fifth day of the week was called in Latin: dies Jovis (day of Jove/Jupiter), in French it is still called Jeudi and in Spanish Jueves while this day in Old-high-german is called Donarestag, Old-frisian Thunresdei, Old-norse Þórsdagr, English Thursday, Danish Torsdag, Middle-low-german Dunredach, Old-english Þunresdaeg and German Donnerstag which makes it clear that these names have a connection to Donar/Thor.

This interpretation germanica is not the common interpretation whereby Donar/Thor is compared to Hercules. This interpretation is called interpretatio romana and depends on the similarities between Hercules and Donar/Thor. This changed during the time of conversion to christianity at which time the comparison between Donar/Thor and Jove/Jupiter came 'back'.
It were the christian texts which compared these two Gods in their interpretatio christiana. A famous example of this is the in the year 725 near Geismar in Hessen, Germany overthrown Donaroak by Boniface, which was called in the text robur Jovus (Jupiteroak).

(from the book "Germaanse Godsdienst Geschiedenis" [working title])