What's in a Name?

Around the Winter Solstice of 2018, I was considering starting a YouTube Channel.  I wanted an Old Norse sounding name. After searching Google Domains for several days. I started to combine Viking like names. As I found a possible name. I would Google It.  Most things I tried had lots of Google content.  I wanted something unique and kind of rare.  When I tried Leif and TYR, I got very little search results.  Most of the LeifTyr searches found only old news , in the 1870-1890 time period. And not much of that. So on December 21, 2018 around 4:00pm central time,  I whipped out ye ole visa and purchased the domain "LeifTyr.com" .  Yup, I purchased a Norse sounding domain name on the 2018 Winter Solstice as the sun was setting.  That's cool.

To the best of my knowledge linking these two names was not common.  I suspect linking, Leif which means "Son of" and TYR who was a Viking God of Justice, simply was not done.   I think it implies Son of (a Viking) God.  The conversion of the Vikings to Christianity (around 950AD to 1020AD) would have reduced the chances of combining the two names.

I struggled with the YouTube channel for a couple of years. Due to a lack of time, I let the URL lapse in 2022.  In July 2025, I decided to restart a YouTube Channel.  Luckily "LeifTyr.com" was available and I purchased it.

Today is August 12, 2025.  I was born mid last century.  An American by birth.  A Southerner by geography.  Of Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Scottish ancestors.  Given my reddish-blonde hair, hazel-green eyes, and fair complexion.  I might have a raiding Viking somewhere in the mix of ancestors.