Mårten Eskil Winge, Thor's Fight with the Giants (1872). Whenever a fearsome beast or wily jötunn threatened their peace, the gods generally turned to Thor for intervention. Where Odin and Loki skulked and schemed, Thor faced his problems with a hammer in his hand and violence in his heart. He wielded a war hammer called Mjölnir, and was thought to have red hair and a red beard.īrave, powerful, and righteous, Thor fully embodied the hero archetype. Due to his prodigious sexual appetite and his aptitude for impregnating women, Thor was also associated with fertility. Among his many abilities, Thor commanded storms and rain, and brought lightning and thunder. He was the son of Odin, the “all-father,” and a member of the Aesir tribe of deities. A paragon of strength and masculine virility, the storm god Thor was the fiercest of Norse deities.
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