T-rune

The t-rune takes its name from the deity.

The god is the namesake of the rune ᛏ representing /t/ (the Tiwaz rune) in the runic alphabets, the
indigenous alphabets of the ancient Germanic peoples prior to their adaptation of the Latin alphabet. On
runic inscriptions, ᛏ often appears as a magical symbol.[5] The name first occurs in the historical record
as tyz, a character in the Gothic alphabet (4th century), and it was also known as tī or tir in Old English,
and týr in Old Norse.[4][13] The name of Týr may also occur in runes as ᛏᛁᚢᛦ on the 8th century Ribe
skull fragment.[14]

Toponyms

A variety of place names in Scandinavia refer to the god. For example, Tyrseng, in Viby, Jutland, Denmark
(Old Norse *Týs eng, 'Týr's meadow') was once a stretch of meadow near a stream called Dødeå ('stream
of the dead' or 'dead stream'). Viby also contained another theonym, Onsholt ("Odin's Holt"), and
religious practices associated with Odin and Týr may have occurred in these places. A spring dedicated to
Holy Niels that was likely a Christianization of prior indigenous pagan practice also exists in Viby. Viby
may mean 'the settlement by the sacred site'. Archaeologists have found traces of sacrifices going back
2,500 years in Viby.[15]

The forest Tiveden, between Närke and Västergötland, in Sweden, may mean 'Tyr's forest', but its
etymology is uncertain, and debated.[16] Ti- may refer to týr meaning 'god' generally, and so the name
may derive from Proto-Indo-European *deiwo-widus, meaning 'the forest of the gods'.[16] According to
Rudolf Simek, the existence of a cult of the deity is also evidenced by place names such as Tislund ('Týr's
grove'), which is frequent in Denmark, or Tysnes ('Týr's peninsula') and Tysnesø ('Tysnes island') in
Norway, where the cult appears to have been imported from Denmark.[5]