If they were lying, one of the Gods would lose a hand.

So Fenrir decided to test their honour, by having one of the Gods put their hand in his mouth as he was bound as a show of good faith that meant there was no deceit surrounding the silk chain. When the Gods returned Fenrir with the new chain, the wolf grew suspicious due the apparent pointlessness of being bound with something so delicate. Gleipnir was noted to be as thin and as soft as a silk ribbon. Until they sought aid from the dwarves who forged the magical Gleipnir an unbreakable chain made from six mystical materials: the sound of a cat's footfall, the beard of a woman, the roots of a mountain, the sinews of a bear, the breath of a fish and the spittle of a bird. But with Fenrir growing so quickly, Odin and the other Gods decided to imprison him to keep Ragnarök from happening.įenrir broke every chain the Gods used to keep him imprisoned. As such, Týr was the only one who dared approach the wolf to feed him. They knew the future of young Fenrir and let him stay as a way to try and control their fate, but no one other than Týr dared to go near the wolf out of terror. Before Fenrir was chained and imprisoned, the Gods decided to raise the wolf pup in Asgard. Týr's most notable tale is how he lost his hand to the Wolf-Giant Fenrir. In the late Icelandic Eddas, Týr is portrayed, alternately, as the son of Odin ( Prose Edda) or of Hymir ( Poetic Edda), while the origins of his name and his possible relationship to Tuisto (the divine ancestor of the Germanic peoples) suggest he was once considered the father of the Gods and head of the pantheon, since his name is ultimately cognate to that of Dyeus, the reconstructed chief deity in Indo-European religion. The Latinized name is rendered as Tius or Tio and also formally as Mars Thincsus. Corresponding names in other Germanic languages are Gothic Teiws, Old English Tīw and Old High German Ziu and Cyo, all from Proto-Germanic *Tīwaz. He is typically described as only having one hand, having lost the other to the wolf Fenrir.

Týr is a Norse God associated with war and heroic glory in Norse mythology.

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