Thor

I'm sure you've all heard of Thor's Hammer.
But, what exactly is Thor's Hammer, what does it do?
And who is Thor?

[Sam Finch]

Thor Was a Viking God. He was in charge of Making Thunder which he did by smacking his gread big hammer Down on the Sky making a loud Chashing noise.

Thursday is in fact Thors Day which changed spelling a lont since the days of the Vikings, all days are named after Viking Gods biut I can only remember Thor and Odin (The King of Viking Gods who gives his name to WednesDay.

[kedaman]

"Torsdag" is Swedish, there's only the "h" missing but "Thorsdag" is probably just an older version. "Onsdag" is WednesDay, and "Odin" has just been simplified to "On"

[Mark Sreeves]

The God of Thunder rode along on his horse and roared "I'm Thor!"

His horse turned to him and said,"You forgot your thaddle thilly!"

I always thought Thor was a Greek God.

[kedaman]

Zeus is the Greek version of Thor. Jupiter is the Roman

[noone]

NO, I'm pretty sure Jupiter is the Roman name for Zeus, but Thor being part of Norse mythology is quite different from Greek/Roman Mythology. And I think it was the sound of Thor's horses' hooves that where thunder?

[kedaman]

Ok, there's no connection, but i still see they have all the same kind of role

[Shabble]

Originally posted by Matthew Gates
I'm sure you've all heard of Thor's Hammer.
But, what exactly is Thor's Hammer, what does it do?
Thor's hammer was called Miollnir. It was Thor's most precious posession. When he threw it, it returned back to him. He also possessed Iron gloves with which to weild the hammer. [1]

And who is Thor?
Thor was the Norse God of Thunder. [2]

Refs:[list=1] Norse (http://pubpages.unh.edu/~aimeeg/pages/norsetable.html)
Thunder Issue 4 (http://www.thorshof.org/thunder4.htm)
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Originally posted by noone
NO, I'm pretty sure Jupiter is the Roman name for Zeus, but Thor being part of Norse mythology is quite different from Greek/Roman Mythology. And I think it was the sound of Thor's horses' hooves that where thunder?

Actually, Jupiter was a Roman god who was originally the Greek god, Posiedon, the god of the sea and of earthquakes.

[kedaman]

Then who was Zeus? I was almost sure it was Jupiter

Zeus was the god of all the gods and goddesses on Mount Olympus, his weapon was a thunderbolt.

UP: Sorry, I'm wrong. The Roman's god, Neptune, was Poseidon. I guess Jupiter is Zeus.

[Edited by Matthew Gates on 05-31-2000 at 04:35 PM]

[kedaman]

Hehe, Mars is Ares, Venus is afrodite, what is Tellus?

[Sam Finch]

I don't know, but with a bit of luck someone will tellus.

Ok, I read a magazine about Vikings. It says that their were three main god Vikings: Odin, Thor, and Freya (Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday).

And some Viking named Erik the Red explored Greenland...which he called, even though it was cold, to attract other people. A trick. :)