Thor
Sign in to saveright|thumb|upright=1.3|''Thor's Fight with the Giants (Tors strid med jättarna) by (1872). Thor (from ) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, storms, strength, protection, fertility, and farmers. Besides Old Norse , the deity occurs in Old English as ', in Old Frisian as '', in Old Saxon as , and in Old High German as , all ultimately stemming from the Proto-Germanic theonym ', meaning 'Thunder'.
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Thor is a prominent god in Germanic paganism and Norse mythology, depicted as a hammer-wielding deity associated with thunder, storms, strength, protection, fertility, and farmers. The name Thor, which appears across Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old High German cultures, derives from a Proto-Germanic word meaning "Thunder."
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24 sectionsContents
- Name
- Etymology
- Name of the weeks
- Personal names
- Historical attestations
- Roman era
- Post-Roman era{{anchor|Post-Roman_era}}
- Viking age
- Image gallery
- Post-Viking age
- ''Poetic Edda''
- ''Prose Edda'', {{lang|non|Heimskringla|italic=yes}}, and sagas
- Saint Olaf
- Modern folklore
- Archaeological record
- Hammer pendants, hammer coins, and Eyrarland Statue
- Swastikas
- Eponymy and toponymy
- Origin, theories, and interpretations
- Modern influence
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
right|thumb|upright=1.3|''Thor's Fight with the Giants (Tors strid med jättarna) by (1872). Thor (from ) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, storms, strength, protection, fertility, and farmers. Besides Old Norse , the deity occurs in Old English as ', in Old Frisian as '', in Old Saxon as , and in Old High German as , all ultimately stemming from the Proto-Germanic theonym ', meaning 'Thunder'.
Thor is a prominently mentioned god throughout the recorded history of the Germanic peoples, from the Roman occupation of regions of , to the Germanic expansions of the Migration Period, to his high popularity during the Viking Age, when, in the face of the process of the Christianization of Scandinavia, emblems of his hammer, , were worn and Norse pagan personal names containing the name of the god bear witness to his popularity.