thor

     

Thor (Ol Norse: Þórr) is the red-haired and beardedgod of thunder in Germanic paganism and its subset Norse paganism. The god is also recorded in Old English as Þunor, Old Saxon as Thunaer, as Old Dutch and Old High German: Donar, all of which are names deriving from the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name *Þunraz.

Trivia about thor

  • An early scene in this 2011 film is set in Tonsberg, Norway in the year 965 A.D.
  • This Norse god had iron gloves, a belt of strength & a magic hammer
  • Norse legend says a snake coiled around the world & this god of the sky will someday kill each other
  • A hunky hurler:ROTH
  • This Norse god has a hammer named Mjollnir
  • This Norse god hammered Hrungnir to death
  • This thunder god's hammer was a prominent motif in Viking jewelry
  • In Norse mythology, this god lives in a giant mansion called Bilskirnir, or "lightning"
  • This Norse god of thunder really liked to put the hammer down
  • Stan's movie cameos include one in 2011 as a truck driver trying to pull this god's hammer out of the ground
  • In Scandinavia, the Yule goat carries an elf bringing gifts; originally it carried this thunder god
  • Thrym, king of the frost giants, stole the hammer of this god & buried it 8 miles deep in the earth; bad idea
  • In case you were wondering, there is a god of snowshoes: it's Ull, the son of this thunder god's wife Sif
  • On doomsday this Norse thunder god will kill the Midgard serpent, then drown in its venom
  • Hymir was really hammered by the hammer of this god
  • This Norse god known for his great strength was a protector of peasants & farmers
  • Roskva, the farmer's daughter, was always under the hammer as a personal assistant to this god
  • The weapon of choice of this Norse god, which created lightning, is seen here
  • This god's principal weapon is Mjollnir
  • Thurheim, or "Place of Might", is this god's realm in Asgard
  • Hrungnir threw a huge stone at this god, who used his hammer to shatter the stone in the air & kill the giant
  • This thunder god's appetite was so huge he once ate an ox & 8 salmon, & drank 3 barrels of mead
  • The guy seen here was born in Asgard and banished to Earth by his dad, Odin
  • This Norse god rides through the sky in a noisy chariot pulled by 2 huge billy goats
  • This chief defender of Asgard had a big cult following in Uppsala
  • In the comic book, frail Dr. Don Blake struck his walking stick on the ground & became this mighty god of thunder
  • The Norse believed that during a thunderstorm, this god rode through the heavens on a chariot drawn by goats
  • This noisy Norse god had a daughter named Thrud
  • In Wagner's Ring Cycle, this Norse god is known as Donner
  • This hero used Dr. Donald Blake & Sigurd Jarlson as aliases & tips the scales at a thunder-god-like 6'6", 640 pounds