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Thor has two servants, Þjálfi and Röskva, rides in a cart or chariot pulled by two goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr ( that he eats and resurrects ), and is ascribed three dwellings ( Bilskirnir, Þrúðheimr, and Þrúðvangr ).
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Notable in this category are the Jupiter and Thor intermediate range ballistic missiles, which have been successfully developed, produced, and deployed, but the relative importance of which has diminished with the increasing availability of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile.
Thor so highly regards Rogers ' courage, leadership, and combat abilities that he has stated that Rogers is one of the very few humans he will take orders from and follow " through the gates of Hades ".
Acknowledging that Thor has arrived, Loki asks Thor why he is raging, and says that Thor won't be so bold to fight against the wolf when he swallows Odin at Ragnarök.
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.
* Thor has three main weapons for use against the giants: his hammer Mjolnir, a magical belt that doubles his strength and a pair of iron gauntlets that allow him to wield the hammer.
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 ).
The Fagrskinna ( a 13th century history of the Kings of Norway ), has a similar account in respect to Svein Forkbeard, mentioning first ceremonial drinkings dedicated to the greatest of one's kindred, then to Thor or others of the gods.
Bygdøy has several museums, like the Kon-Tiki Museum, which shows all year long the legendary expeditions of Thor Heyerdahl ; the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History ( Norsk Folkemuseum ); the Viking Ship Museum ; the Norwegian Maritime Museum and the ship Fram, used by Roald Amundsen.
In Hervarar saga, the dísablót is also held in autumn, and is performed by a woman, the daughter of King Álfr of Álfheim, who " reddens the hörgr with sacrifices and is subsequently rescued by the god Thor after she has been abducted ; John Lindow suggests that the passage depicts a model of heathen behaviour.
Thor has appeared as a character in various comics over the years, appearing in series from a range of publishers.
In " De Rode Ridder " series the existence of the thunder god Thor is shown in # 45, ( The Hammer of Thor, 1970 ) and the Thunderer has a role in # 63 ( The Valkyrie, 1974 ), in which the Rode / Red Knight has been chosen by Odin to complete a mission the gods cannot do themselves without causing Ragnarok.
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Later in Grímnismál, Grímnir notes that Asbrú " burns all with flames " and that, every day, the god Thor wades through the waters of Körmt and Örmt and the two Kerlaugar:
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.
The two then go to the court of the goddess Freyja, and Thor asks her if he may borrow her feather cloak so that he may attempt to find Mjöllnir.
The gods dress Thor as a bride, and Loki states that he will go with Thor as his maid, and that the two shall drive to Jötunheimr together.
The two most featured pantheons are the Asgardians ( of whom Thor is a member ) and the Olympians ( of whom Hercules is a member ).
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.
Yggdrasil is first mentioned in the poem in stanza 29, where Odin says that, because the " bridge of the Æsir burns " and the " sacred waters boil ," Thor must wade through the rivers Körmt and Örmt and two rivers named Kerlaugar to go " sit as judge at the ash of Yggdrasill.
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 ").
* In the stronghold of the giant Útgarda-Loki, Thor drank three mighty draughts from a horn during a drinking contest but gave up when he was unable to empty the horn of its contents ; this was also one of three tasks he did-and failed-during his stay, the other two being to lift a cat ( he made it lift a paw, leaving three on ground ) and to defeat an old woman ; it's later revealed that the horn was connected to the sea ( which he leveled down by three fingers ), the cat was the World Sepent and the old woman, the Old Age itself.
They row to a point where Hymir often sat and caught flat fish, where he drew up two whales, but Thor demands to go further out to sea, and does so despite Hymir's warnings.
Thor pulls the serpent from the water, and the two face one another, Jörmungandr dribbling poison and blood.
The adventurer Thor Heyerdahl built two boats from papyrus, Ra and Ra II, in an attempt to demonstrate that ancient African or Mediterranean people could have reached America.
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.
In addition to her two Warders, Ihvon and Owein, Alanna has also forcefully Bonded Rand al ' Thor ( after one of her Warders died ) as a Warder when she met him at the Culain's Hound Inn in Caemlyn.
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Thor gained access to Zarkko's base after distracting the tyrant by getting someone to impersonate him, and defeated his robot servants even after they got his hammer.
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