Thor

Thor

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

noun

Norse Mythology

The god of thunder.

Origin of Thor

Old Norse Thōrr ; see (s)tenə- in Indo-European roots.

Thor

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

thor

Adverb

(not comparable)

Pronoun

(possessive determiner, possessive pronoun thors)

Proper noun

Origin

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

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The Varangian god Perun was probably Thor himself under a Slavonic name (Russian perun, "thunderbolt").
Odin's wife was Frigg; their sons were Thor (the thunder-god) and Balder, whose myth is well known in English poetry.
Wednesday was assigned to the planet Mercury, the equivalent of the Germanic god Woden; Thursday to Jupiter, the equivalent of Thor; and Friday to Friga, the goddess of love, who is represented by Venus among the Romans and among the Babylonians by Ishtar.
In the German mythology the army of darkness is led by Hel, the personification of twilight, sunk to the goddess who enchains the dead and terrifies the living, and Loki, originally the god of fire, but afterwards "looked upon as the father of the evil powers, who strips the goddess of earth of her adornments, who robs Thor of his fertilizing hammer, and causes the death of Balder the beneficent sun."
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.