• Vintage Tyr Haebbe Norse God War 1914 1514  Enamelware Enamel Mug Crest Shield
• We think this dates to 1914 and to the Norse Gods Tyr and Odin, possibly a battle cry related to the World War I conflict in Europe, we haven't figured out the reference to 1514
• In Norse mythology, Tyr is the son of Odin and brother of Thor
• WIkipedia explains a possible link between this text and an old European ballad as follows: "Tyr and Odin from the Old English Tȳr hæbbe ūs, ġe Tȳr ġe Ōðinn "Tyr keep us, both Tyr and Odin", an unlikely explanation since the gods' names are given in their Old Norse forms, not the Old English Tīw and Wōden and the normal phonological development would not result in the modern pronunciation, apart from that, the survival of a supposed Old English sentence in its near original form for more than 700 years is barely conceivable... It has also been suggested that the phrase is a series of vocables imitating the sound of a march played on drums and bagpipes. Alistair Moffat suggests in Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms (1999) that the phrase was originally the Welsh "Tir y Bas y Tir y Odin," meaning "The Land of Death, the Land of Odin", although Odin wasn't noted for his popularity amongst the Welsh. However, he also postulates that the phrase could mean "Land of Death, Land of the Gododdin" (The initial G is often elided), the Gododdin being the local Britonnic tribe of the area."
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