Tiw is a god of battle and warfare. Songs and tales say that he bound the Great Wolf that threatened the worlds of gods and men. The price of this great feat was the loss of one of his hands. Calling to mind this sacred narrative, he is sometimes invoked with the epithets Wolf-Binder and One-Handed. Warriors are known to inscribe runic formulas invoking Tiw on the pommel of swords or on the hafts of knifes and spears. Some say that the goshawk is his spirit animal.
(Old English (OE) Tiwesdæg = Tuesday = Tiw’s Day. When the Germanic people adopted the Roman calendar system (which was previously appropriated from Greek-speaking Jews), they replaced most of the Roman gods with Germanic equivalents. This practice is referred to as interpretatio germanica.
During the timeframe of this campaign this calendar system is not yet in widespread use. The process is underway, it’s just not widely accepted or integrated into various tribal cultures. Instead, the Anglo-Saxon peoples of this time primarily abide by a traditional lunisolar calendar system.
Tiw is the Norse equivalent of Tyr, and the Great Wolf refers to Fenrir, “Fen Dweller.”)
