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Tyr Bracteate, Trollhattan (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia, Tyr article, read 2026-08-18

The English Wikipedia article on Tyr, discussing objects scholars have proposed as depicting the god and describing a Migration Period gold bracteate from Trollhattan, Sweden, showing a person receiving a bite on the hand from a beast, a scene the article says may depict Tyr and Fenrir, comparing it to similar bracteates from Skrydstrup in Denmark and from Hamburg in Germany bearing runic inscriptions naming or invoking Tyr. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Reliability Tier
3
A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here for the bracteate's find location and the scholarly proposal that it depicts Tyr and Fenrir, independently corroborated by a Wikimedia Commons file record of the same object naming the museum, accession number and finder, and stating the identification directly.
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Wikipedia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyr
Source Type
encyclopedia
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Denmark, Countries

This source names Denmark directly: "similar bracteates from Skrydstrup in Denmark and from Hamburg in Germany bearing runic inscriptions naming or invoking Tyr."

Source Tyr Bracteate, Trollhattan (Wikipedia)
Sweden, Countries

This source names Sweden directly: "gold bracteate from Trollhattan, Sweden, showing a person receiving a bite on the hand from a beast, a scene the article says may depict Tyr and Fenrir, comparing it to similar bracteates from..."

Source Tyr Bracteate, Trollhattan (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (17 claims)

This source backs 17 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 6 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Sacred Art & Iconography, 10 claims: 4 well-attested, 4 holds, 2 general references.
  • Sources, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds.
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