Later they announced new members: Bassist Thor Georg Buer ( Grave Declaration ), guitarist Robert Bordevik ( Grievance, Vardøger ), drummer Jo Henning Børven ( Morgenroede ) and keyboardist Nickolas Main Henriksen ( Aspera, Desdemon ).

Wilson ( 1894 ) points out that while the swastika had been " vulgarly called in Scandinavia the hammer of Thor ", the symbol properly so called had a Y or T shape.

* 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.

* 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.

This action followed the 1958 deployment of Thor IRBMs in the UK ( Project Emily ) and Jupiter IRBMs to Italy and Turkey in 1961 – more than 100 US-built missiles having the capability to strike Moscow with nuclear warheads.

* 1970 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.

* 1997 – Thor Salden, Belgian singer

* 1914 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer ( d. 2002 )

* Pioneer 0 ( Thor-Able 1, Pioneer ) – Lunar orbiter, destroyed ( Thor failure 77 seconds after launch ) August 17, 1958

* Thor Able – Encyclopedia Astronautica

* May 17 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II, to sail the Atlantic Ocean.

* July 12 – Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra II arrives in Barbados.

Thor Heyerdahl ( October 6, 1914, Larvik, Norway – April 18, 2002, Colla Micheri, Italy ) was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a background in zoology and geography.

* Thor Heyerdahl – Daily Telegraph obituary

* Thor Harris – drums, percussion, vibes, dulcimer, keyboards

He has also starred in numerous other films and television series including Fortunes of War ( 1987 ), Wild Wild West ( 1999 ), The Road to El Dorado ( 2000 ), Conspiracy ( TV ) ( 2001 ), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( 2002 ), Warm Springs ( TV ) ( 2005 ), Valkyrie ( 2008 ), Wallander ( TV series ) ( 2008 – present ), and My Week with Marilyn ( 2011 ) as Laurence Olivier ( Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor ); and directed such notable films as Dead Again ( 1991 ) ( also starring ), Swan Song ( 1992 ) ( Academy Award nominated for Best Live Action Short Film ), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1994 ) ( also starring ), The Magic Flute ( 2006 ), Sleuth ( 2007 ), and the blockbuster superhero film Thor ( 2011 ).

Gray formed the Easter Island Committee, with Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl ( 1914 – 2002 ) as its honorary chairman.

* Thor Nogson – Noggin's friend and Captain of the Royal Guard.

* Thor Heyerdahl ( 1914 – 2002 ), ethnographer and adventurer, Kon-Tiki and other primitive sailing vessels

He announced at the time that he was also writing – with Tony Law-a sitcom pilot about the god Thor, for BBC Two, and script-editing another pilot, a sitcom about the Brontë sisters.

Thor Heyerdahl ( 1914 – 2002 ) was the expedition leader.

* Thor Polysonic Synthesizer – The Thor device simulates a semi-modular synthesizer.

* PGM-17 Thor ( 1850 – 3700 km ) ( U. S. A .) and ( U. K .)

Project Emily: The Thor IRBM and the Royal Air Force 1959 – 1963.

After a second appearance as " Him " in Thor # 165-166 ( June – July 1969 ), writer and then Marvel editor-in-chief Roy Thomas and penciler Gil Kane significantly revamped Him as the allegorical Messiah Adam Warlock in Marvel Premiere # 1 ( April 1972 ).

* Thor Nis Christiansen ( 1957 – 1981 ), serial killer in California, USA

* Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson ( born 1967 ), Icelandic businessman and entrepreneur

Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson ( born 19 March 1967 in Reykjavík, Iceland ), known internationally as Thor Bjorgolfsson, is an Icelandic businessman and entrepreneur, and former chairman of the financial firm Straumur-Burðarás and chairman of investment firm Novator Partners.

Launchers have included Jupiter C / Juno I, Juno II, various Thor rockets such as Thor-Able, Scout, various Delta and Delta II rockets ( see Delta rocket family ), and Pegasus.

Examples of goddesses attested in Norse mythology include Frigg ( wife of Odin, and the Anglo-Saxon version of whom is namesake of the modern English weekday Friday ), Skaði ( one time wife of Njörðr ), Njerda ( Scandinavian name of Nerthus ), that also was married to Njörðr during Bronze Age, Freyja ( wife of Óðr ), Sif ( wife of Thor ), Gerðr ( wife of Freyr ), and personifications such as Jörð ( earth ), Sól ( the sun ), and Nótt ( night ).

móður hold mellu dolgs " flesh of mother of enemy of giantess " is the Earth ( Jörd ), personified as a goddess who was the mother of Thor, the enemy of the Jotuns.

The larger wooden Cult image | idol represents Frey ( Ing ), the picture in front of it Sól ( sun ) | Sunna, and the small red idol Thor.

The painted tablet on the back depicts Sól ( sun ) | Sunna, the two larger wooden idols Odin ( left ) and Freyr | Frey ( right ), in front of them there are the three Norns, and in the front row a red Thor and other idols.

In Norse mythology, Ragnarök (, or ), typically spelled Ragnarǫk in the handwritten scripts, is a series of future events, including a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures ( including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdallr, and Loki ), the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water.

Of these, Thor was disqualified for throwing his hammer ( he was allowed to use it since he was powerless without it ), The Incredible Hulk was disqualified because the Champion refused to " soil his hands on a mindless animal ," Wonder Man was disqualified for tearing up the ring after being battered badly in the first round, Sasquatch was knocked out in the first round, and Colossus was defeated by technical knockout in the first round when he was unable to continue fighting.

The Tigris was crewed by eleven men: Thor Heyerdahl ( Norway ), Norman Baker ( USA ),

In genitival compounds, it takes the form, e. g. in " Thor of the Aesir ", besides found in ás-brú " gods ' bridge " ( the rainbow ),, " gods ' kin ", " gods ' leader ", " gods ' might " ( especially of Thor ), " divine wrath " etc.

Painting depicting the English god Thunor ( the Norse Thor ), after whom Thursday is named, by Mårten Eskil Winge, 1872

Since the Roman god Jupiter was identified with Thunor ( Norse Thor in northern Europe ), most Germanic languages name the day after this god: Torsdag in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, Hósdagur / Tórsdagur in Faroese, Donnerstag in German or Donderdag in Dutch.

Sif is additionally mentioned in two kennings found in poems collected in the Poetic Edda ; Hymiskviða ( where Thor is referred to as the " Husband of Sif " thrice ), and Þrymskviða ( where Thor is once referred to as " Husband of Sif ").

It was discovered in 1828 by the Norwegian mineralogist Morten Thrane Esmark and identified by the Swedish chemist Jons Jakob Berzelius and named after Thor, the Norse god of thunder.

Nils Thor Granlund: The Swedish Showman Who Invented American Entertainment.

Parts of the story related in Þrymskviða remained in the Thor song, a song which is known from Scandinavia and of which there are Swedish accounts from the 17th century to the 19th century.

Thor has been the name of at least two ships of the Swedish Navy:

This part of a 12th century Swedish tapestry has been interpreted to show, from left to right, the one-eyed Odin, the hammer-wielding Thor and Freyr holding up an ear of corn.

But the name Horagalles is now interpreted as a loanword from the Old Norse Þórr Karl, " the Old Man Thor ," " Thor, the Elder ," or " Thor fellow ," " Thor Karl " ( possibly from Norwegian Torrekall ), or Swedish Torsmannen, " the thunder man.