What's in a name (or a Tyr by any other name is still a Tyr.)

 

We keep getting asked about the names, how to pronounce them, what they mean, and where they came from.  So to answer your questions.

 

I have loved the name Wolfgang since I was a little girl and Dave has always liked it.  We call him Wolf. It is the reason I have taught Thor that doggies say Arf Arf and not Woof Woof.  Might be too confusing.  I finally realized the reason that I liked the name Wolfgang so much a few weeks ago.  Wolfgang Reitherman was one of Walt Disney's original 9 animators and was with Disney until his death. He would have been involved in all the Disney movies that I saw growing up. (Rescuers that I saw while my mom was having my brother, 101 Dalmatians, Aristicats, etc. etc)   I must have seen the name in the credits a million times and it stuck.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Reitherman for more information on him.  It is pretty cool.

 

Tyr is pronounced Tier.  It is Both Scandinavian and German.  Here is more information here on who Tyr was:

http://www.timelessmyths.com/norse/aesir.html#Tyr

He is both the younger brother of Thor and the keeper of the wolf.  Kinda ties all the names together. Tuesday was originally called Tyr's day as it was the day to worship Tyr just as Thursday's were originally called Thor's day.

 

That and he was a character in the last series that Gene Roddenberry's developed, Andromeda,  and I am a huge Roddenberry fan.  Dave hasn't put that part together yet.

 

Heinrich (Wolf's middle name) is my Great Grandpa Baier's middle name and Arnold (Tyr's middle name) was my Grandfather's brother, who was killed in WWII, and is my uncle Arnie, my Dad's brother.  It is a good family name to carry on.