Tiwaz

ᛏ · Old English tir

The rune of Tiwaz
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The namethe god Týr, called Tiw in Old English
Old English runetir
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In the Old English Rune Poem
T. ( ? ) is a (guiding) star; well does it keep faith with princes; it is ever on its course over the mists of night and never fails.
Where this comes from

The Old English Rune Poem is the fullest surviving poem about the runes. It describes the Anglo-Saxon futhorc, which grew out of the Elder Futhark, so the stanza below belongs to the Old English rune that continues this one rather than to the Elder Futhark rune itself.

The Anglo-Saxon Runic Poem, translated by Bruce Dickins in Runic and Heroic Poems of the Old Teutonic Peoples (Cambridge University Press, 1915). The text and the runes are in the public domain.

The letterform is redrawn from the public-domain vector runes on Wikimedia Commons, set on a common canvas so every rune in the row is the same size.

Dickins prints a question mark for the name: the manuscript has tir, which is not quite the god's name Tiw, and the stanza describes a star rather than a god.

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