TYR  , the Scandinavian

god of battle . He is not a prominent figure in Northern mythology, for even in this special capacity he is overshadowed by Odin, and there are hardly any traces of worship being paid to him . Among other Teutonic peoples, however, he seems at one time to have been a deity of consider-able importance . In Anglo-Saxon he was called Ti (Ti, Tiig, gen . Tiwes, whence " Tuesday ") and equated with the Roman Mars . He is also identified with the German god mentioned more than once by Tacitus, as well as in inscriptions, by the name Mars . His Teutonic name is the same as the word for " god "in several other Indo-European languages (e.g . Lat. diuus, Lith. devas, Skr. devas), and even in Old Norse the plural (tivar) was still used in the same sense . (See TEUTONIC PEOPLES § Religion, ad fin.) (H . M .