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Norse Myth. the god of thunder, war, and strength, and a son of Odin, armed with a magic hammer

Origin of Thor

Old Norse Thorr: see thunder

Thor

noun

Norse Mythology

The god of thunder.

Origin of Thor

Old Norse Th&omacron;rr; see (s)ten&schwa;- in Indo-European roots.

Thor

detail from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript of the Prose Edda

thor

Adverb

(not comparable)

(Geordie) there
(Geordie) they're (they are)

Pronoun

(possessive determiner, possessive pronoun thors)

(Geordie) their

Proper noun

(Norse mythology) The god of thunder.
A male given name occasionally borrowed from Scandinavia.

Origin

Representing Old Norse ÃžÃ³rr (Swedish Tor); cognate with Old English Ã¾unor.

thor - Computer Definition

(Tandy High-intensity Optical Recorder) An erasable audio CD recorder from Tandy that was expected in the early 1990s, but never developed.

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Frigg is his wife, and several of the gods, including Thor and Balder, are his sons.
Some mythologists have compared the hammer of Hephaestus with that of Thor, and have explained it as the emblem of a thunder-god; but it is Zeus, not Hephaestus, who causes the thunder, and the emblems of the latter god are merely the signs of his occupation as a smith.
Among these were Odin (Woden), Thor (Thunor) and Tyr (Ti); so also Frigg (Frig), the wife of Odin (see Frigg, Odin, Woden, Thor, Tyr).
Heimdallr, the watchman of the gods and Ullr, the stepson of Thor, as well as Hoenir, Bragi and most of the other less prominent gods, Writing.
Indeed, such may very well have been the case with Frey, the chief god of the North after Thor and Odin.

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