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Ægir ( Old Norse " sea ") is a sea giant, god of the ocean and king of the sea creatures in Norse mythology.

Baldr ( also Balder, Baldur ) is a god in Norse mythology.

Bilskirnir ( Old Norse " lightning-crack ") is the hall of the god Thor in Norse mythology.

Bragi is the skaldic god of poetry in Norse mythology.

In Norse mythology, Draupnir ( Old Norse " the dripper ") is a gold ring possessed by the god Odin with the ability to multiply itself: Every ninth night eight new rings ' drip ' from Draupnir, each one of the same size and weight as the original.

The story of the Sword in the Stone has an analogue in some versions of the story of Sigurd ( the Norse proto-Siegfried ), whose father, Sigmund, draws the sword Gram out of the tree Barnstokkr where it is embedded by the Norse god Odin.

The Prose Edda consists of a Prologue and three separate books: Gylfaginning, concerning the creation and foretold destruction and rebirth of the Norse mythical world, Skáldskaparmál, a dialogue between Ægir, a supernatural figure connected with the sea, and Bragi, a god connected with skaldship, and Háttatal, a demonstration of verse forms used in Norse mythology.

In Norse mythology, earthquakes were explained as the violent struggling of the god Loki.

Forseti ( Old Norse " the presiding one ," actually " president " in Modern Icelandic and Faroese ) is an Æsir god of justice and reconciliation in Norse mythology.

In Norse mythology, Geri and Freki ( Old Norse, both meaning " the ravenous " or " greedy one ") are two wolves which are said to accompany the god Odin.

kliz, E. shining ) is the hall of Forseti, the Norse god of law and justice, and the seat of justice amongst gods and men.

In Norse mythology, Huginn ( from Old Norse " thought ") and Muninn ( Old Norse " memory " or " mind ") are a pair of ravens that fly all over the world, Midgard, and bring the god Odin information.

In Norse mythology, Heimdallr is a god who possesses the resounding horn Gjallarhorn, owns the golden-maned horse Gulltoppr, has gold teeth, and is the son of Nine Mothers.

Regarding the inscription reading, John Hines of Cardiff University comments that there is " quite an essay to be written over the uncertainties of translation and identification here ; what are clear, and very important, are the names of two of the Norse gods on the side, Odin and Heimdallr, while Þjalfi ( masculine, not the feminine in-a ) is the recorded name of a servant of the god Thor.

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.

Jötunn, along with many other elements of Norse mythology associated with the superhero Thor, exist in the Marvel Universe in publications by Marvel Comics.

* Valhallen ( voiced by Tom Kenny )-A superhero who resembled Thor, and his name was a portmanteau of Valhalla, the spiritual plane of Norse mythology, and Van Halen, an American rock band.

Issue five was devoted to Horus, Lord of Light, which appropriates Ancient Egyptian mythology as background for a modern era superhero in the same way that The Mighty Thor appropriated Norse Mythology.

Thor ( often called The Mighty Thor ) is a Marvel Comics superhero, based on the thunder god of Norse mythology.

Thor, a founding member of the superhero group the Avengers, often battles his evil adoptive brother Loki, a Marvel character adapted from the Norse god of mischief.

Beginning with issue # 83 ( cover-dated Aug. 1962 ), it ran the superhero feature " The Mighty Thor ", created by writers Stan Lee and Larry Lieber and artist Jack Kirby, and inspired by the mythological Norse thunder god.

Beginning with issue # 83 ( Aug. 1962 ), the title starred the Norse god superhero Thor.

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

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 ).

In Norse Mythology, Thor, the god of thunder and lightning, wields a hammer named Mjolnir.

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.

Consider the ruler of lightning: the supreme god Zeus, Perun, Jupiter controlled lightning himself ; while in Norse mythology Odin delegated the power of lighting to his son Thor.

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.

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.

In Norse mythology, the oak was sacred to the thunder god, Thor.

The name of the town means Thor's Harbour, and it may be named after the god of thunder and lightning in Norse mythology ; thus the town's coat of arms shows Thor's hammer Mjolnir, but more likely it was named after the first settler whose name then was Thor.

Her name Thora is derived from the name of the Norse God of thunder and lightning, Thor.

Perkele is the god associated with thunder in Finnish mythology, like Thor of Norse mythology.

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.

It was held to be a storm-cloud bird and sacred to Thor, the god of thunder, in Norse mythology.

These include the Greek god Zeus, the Aztec god Tlaloc, the Mayas ' God K, Slavic mythology's Perun, the Baltic Pērkons / Perkūnas, Thor in Norse mythology, Ukko in Finnish mythology, the Hindu god Indra, and the Shinto god Raijin.

10th century Eyrarland statue of Thor, the Norse god of thunder, found in Iceland.

The settlers of Iceland were dominantly pagans and worshipped the Norse gods, among them Odin, Thor, Freyr and Freyja.

Because of his associations with smithing and skill, Aulë is similar in thematic role to the Greek god Hephaestus, the Roman god Vulcan and the Norse god Thor.