Tyr (journal)
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Tyr: Myth—Culture—Tradition is an American “radical traditionalist” journal,{{cite book
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History
Tyr is published annually. The first issue was published in 2002 under the ULTRA imprint in Atlanta, Georgia. Four volumes, in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2014, were published by Norway's Integral Publications, one in 2018 by Arcana Europa Media.{{Third-party inline|date=August 2022}} One editor, Buckley, was a former member of a Neo-Nazi group called SS of America, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Content
It is named for Tyr, the Germanic god.{{Cite web |title=How Klan Lawyer Sam Dickson Got Rich |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2006/how-klan-lawyer-sam-dickson-got-rich |access-date=2022-05-28 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}} The magazine states that it "celebrates the traditional myths, culture, and social institutions of pre-Christian, pre-modern Europe."
The magazine largely focuses on topics relating to Germanic neopaganism and Germanic paganism with an amount of content regarding Celtic polytheism as well.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}
Contributors include Asatru Folk Assembly founder Stephen McNallen, Nouvelle Droite leader Alain de Benoist, British musicologist and translator Joscelyn Godwin, modern Germanic mysticist Nigel Pennick and scholar Stephen Flowers. The journal has also published translations of older works, such as by occultist Julius Evola and völkisch poet and musician Hermann Löns.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}
Reception and analysis
As described by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, Tyr "contextualized Traditionalism within an implicitly nativistic worldview championing white European ethnicities".{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1275367974 |title=The right and radical right in the Americas : ideological currents from interwar Canada to contemporary Chile |date=2022 |others=Tamir Bar-On, Barbara Molas |isbn=978-1-7936-3583-9 |location=Lanham, Maryland |oclc=1275367974}}
A brief 2004 review in Willamette Week of the second issue said that "It's hard not to find the recurrent interest in a posited tribal "homogeneity" a little discomfiting (indeed, a section of this issue's preface attempts to dismiss "The Fascist Accusation" before the fact)", and summarized the journal as "a first-class artifact of, ironically, modern Bohemia".{{cite news |last1=Dundas |first1=Zach |title=tyr: myth, culture, tradition |url=https://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=5087 |accessdate=May 19, 2020 |work=Willamette Week |date=May 12, 2004 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929115746/https://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=5087 |archivedate=September 29, 2007}}
Michael Strmiska, writing for the Pagan Studies journal The Pomegranate in 2010 reviewed the first three issues. According to Strmiska, the Tyr was eclectic and "difficult to categorize". Strmiska also addressed the political content of Tyr, specifically saying the journal was not pro-fascist or neo-Nazi.Review of Tyr: Myth-Culture-Tradition, by Michael Strmiska, The Pomegranate vol. 12, n. 1, 2010, p. 118-120
References
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External links
- [https://tyrjournal.tripod.com/ Tyr official site]
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