Týr

Týr is the god who pays. The one-handed god of war and of the sworn oath, he is the bravest of the Æsir and the one with the cleanest sense of what honour costs. When the gods could bind the doom-wolf Fenrir only by a pledge they did not mean to keep, every god looked away — and Týr alone laid his right hand in the wolf's jaws, knowing he would lose it, so that the binding could be done. The wolf snapped; the gods laughed; Týr did not. He kept faith with a lie by paying for it in his own flesh, and that maiming is the whole of him: the warrior who understands that the order of the world is held together by costs somebody has to bear, and steps forward to be the one who bears them. At Ragnarök he is fated to fall against the hound Garmr, ending as he lived — giving everything and asking nothing back.