The Bloodaxe was then re-introduced during Dan Jurgens ' Thor run, where it was used by Thor in conjunction with Mjolnir.

* Engineers – Buster & Shavoni, Cedric Courtois, Dan Workman, Larry Sturm, Peter Thyssen, Rich Balmer, Thor Laewe, Wayne Allison

** Juggernaut: The Eight Day: " Eight is Enough " ( with Terry Shoemaker, one-shot, 1999 ) collected in Thor by Dan Jurgens & John Romita, Jr. Volume 3 ( tpb, 200 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4385-8 )

The stanza recounts that Freyja was once promised to an unnamed builder, later revealed to be a jötunn and so killed by Thor ( recounted in detail in Gylfaginning chapter 42 — see Prose Edda section below ).

Soon thereafter, several Acura models — such as the MDX, ZDX, RL, and TL — appeared in the films Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger.

The background for the project is described in two books, Ingen grenser, 1999, Heyerdahl, Thor and Per Lillieström, Oslo: Stenersens forlag, ISBN 82-7201-270-7 and Jakten på Odin — På sporet av vår fortid, 2001, Heyerdahl, Thor and Per Lillieström, Oslo: Stenersens forlag, ISBN 82-7201-316-9.

Accompanying, guiding, and protecting the three potential boys — Rand al ' Thor, Mat Cauthon and Perrin Aybara — she took along a few others ( Thom Merrilin, Nynaeve al ' Meara and Egwene al ' Vere ) to the safety of the White Tower.

The earliest records of the Germanic peoples were recorded by the Romans, and in these works Thor is frequently referred to — via a process known as interpretatio romana ( where characteristics perceived to be similar by Romans result in identification of a non-Roman god as a Roman deity )— as either the Roman god Jupiter ( also known as Jove ) or the Greco-Roman demigod Hercules.

Aided by the futuristic Rama-Tut once more — who has evolved after a journey to Limbo and a study of time into Immortus — Hawkeye, Thor, and ally Moondragon confront Kang, with the help of the Two-Gun Kid.

A large family of space launch vehicles — the Delta rockets — were derived from the Thor design.

Many atheists, including Richard Dawkins, use parody religions such as those of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Invisible Pink Unicorn — as well as ancient gods like Zeus and Thor — as modern versions of Russell's teapot to argue that the burden of proof is on the believer, not the atheist.

2, with writers Len Wein, who he called his favorite writer — " It was uncanny, how in tune we were ... incredible mesh " — as well as Roger Stern and Bill Mantlo ; the Defenders, with Wein and Steve Gerber ; Thor, with Walt Simonson and John Workman ; and various Spider-Man titles with Gerry Conway and J. M.

Afterwards, Thor took her before a real god — his father, Odin, to be judged.

The Transparent Man, written by Rawson, starred Jerome Thor as The Great Merlini — who in this incarnation was a stage magician — with Barbara Cook as his assistant Julie and featuring E. G. Marshall as a criminal.

The Skyfathers then develop a convoluted plan to stop the Fourth Host via the use of the Odinsword and Destroyer armour, but once again the Celestials — although also opposed by Odin's son Thor — prevent the offensive and melt the Destroyer armour into slag, scattering the Asgardians ' life-forces.

The other major characters — Peter, Wiley, Clumsy Carp, Curls, and Thor — were patterned after friends and co-workers.

* Eskild Ebbesen, Thomas Ebert, Thor Kristensen, and Stephan Mølvig — Rowing, Men's Lightweight Coxless Fours

In Norse mythology the rowan was associated with the goddess Sif and, particularly, the god Thor as it was deemed his salvation as the giantess, Gjalp, tried to drown him in the rising flow of the Vimur River

As Blake he defeats the Gargoyle by luring him into the Hudson River in New York City, using a projection of Thor, leaving the villain buried at the bottom.

* The Thor Heyerdahl Institute was established in 2000.

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 ).

In autumn 2000, Thor Heyerdahl wanted to further investigate his idea that Scandinavians may have migrated from the south via waterways.

* 2000: Member of the selection-committee of Thor Heyerdahl International Maritime Environmental Award

* Thor Mosaker ( keyboards, 1997 – 2000 )

During this run, she also appeared in Avengers: Infinity # 1-4 ( Sept .- Dec. 2000 ), Maximum Security # 2-3 ( both Jan. 2001 ), Thor vol.

She'd driven around for a while, Joyce said, then, thinking Louis Thor would have calmed down by that time, she'd gone back to his home on Bryn Mawr Drive, parked in front, and walked toward the pool.

Ra II, a ship built from papyrus, was successfully sailed across the Atlantic by Thor Heyerdahl proving that it was possible to cross the Atlantic from Africa using such boats in early epochs of history.

One of them, Múnón, married Priam's daughter, Tróán, and had by her a son, Trór, to be pronounced Thor in Old Norse.

In Lokasenna, Ægir hosts a party for the gods where he provides the ale brewed in an enormous pot or cauldron provided by Thor and Týr.

Thor wades through rivers while the rest of the æsir ride across Bifröst ( 1895 ) by Lorenz Frølich.

* The hall inspired the name of an Asgard starship commanded by Supreme Commander Thor, in the television series Stargate SG-1 named Beliskner.

The two languages were united based on northern Estonian by Anton Thor Helle.

Some examples of this are: R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt of " The Legend of Drizzt ", Kathryn Lasky's Soren of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, David Eddings ' Belgarion in the Belgariad and Malloreon, Terry Brooks ' Shea and Wil Ohmsford of The Sword of Shannara and The Elfstones of Shannara, Terry Goodkind's Richard Cypher, Robert Jordan's Rand al ' Thor of The Wheel of Time, Pug and Arutha of Raymond Feist's Riftwar Saga, Philip Pullman's Lyra Belacqua of His Dark Materials, Ursula K. Le Guin's Ged, Aerial of the Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce, and Christopher Paolini's Eragon of The Inheritance Cycleand Ashalind of the " Bitterbynd Trilogy ".

Iceman is rescued by Thor.

After being kidnapped by the Norse God Loki and used as a pawn against Loki's half brother Thor, Iceman's powers are augmented to uncontrollable levels, through a cryo-condenser.

Thor arrives, and tells Loki to be silent, referring to him as an " evil creature ," stating that with his hammer Mjöllnir he will silence Loki by hammering his head from his shoulders.

Thor responds by telling Loki to be silent, threatening him with Mjöllnir, and adding that every one of Loki's bones will be broken with it.

One last mention of Niflheimr appears where it is the last destination of the jötunn who was killed by Thor after he had built Asgard:

Thor and the Midgard Serpent ( by Emil Doepler, 1905 )

Thor arrives, and kills the builder by smashing the builder's skull into shards with the hammer Mjöllnir.

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.

It is assumed that Tîwaz was overtaken in popularity and in authority by both Odin and Thor at some point during the Migration Age, as Odin shares his role as God of war.

In the 2011 Marvel Studios superhero film Thor, the Asgardian warrior Thor explains that the Nine Realms of the Asgardian cosmos are linked by Yggdrasil, the Norse mythological Tree of Life, which is here interpreted as a nebula in space connecting the planets in an orbit.

He keeps himself busy by fighting powerful warriors throughout the universe, and has even fought a number of assorted Earth superheroes, including The Thing, both the Incredible Hulk and the She-Hulk, Colossus, Sasquatch, Thor, Doc Samson, and Wonder Man.

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.

In chapter 29, Víðarr is introduced by the enthroned figure of High as " the silent god " with a thick shoe, that he is nearly as strong as the god Thor, and that the gods rely on him in times of immense difficulties.

* Thor of Marvel Comics fame uses a gray square-headed war hammer named Mjolnir, which enhances his divine might, provides a variety of nature related powers and can only be lifted by whoever is worthy of the power of Thor.