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Thor Battling Giants
Thor's Fight with the Giants, oil on canvas by Mårten Eskil Winge, 1872.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

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Thor's Hammer Pendant
Silver Mjolnir (Thor's hammer) pendant
9th-11th century CE, Björkö, Sweden.
Historiska Museet, Stockholm

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The Sons of Ivaldi Forging Thor's Hammer
The third gift — an enormous hammer. Illustration from page 88 of In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse Tales written by Abbie Farwell Brown, illustrated by E. Boyd Smith, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1902 CE. The dwarven sons of Ivaldi forge...

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Temple at Uppsala
The Temple at Uppsala was a religious center dedicated to the Norse gods Thor, Odin, and Freyr located in what is now Gamla Uppsala in Sweden. It is described by the 11th-century historian Adam of Bremen as the most significant pagan site...

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Elves & Dwarves in Norse Mythology
Elves and dwarves represent minor divine figures in Norse mythology. Elves (álfar) and dwarves (dvergar) have in common their talent for creating precious objects, skill, agility, and moral ambiguity. Dwarves appear in several important stories...

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Two Adventures of Thor that Deserve to Be on Screen
The story of the trip in Giantland with Loki and the story of the fishing of the World Serpent, as told in the Prose Edda with comments.
Articles on Norse myth here: https://member.worldhistory.org/user/irinamaria.manea/

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Odin
Odin (Old Norse: Óðinn) is the main god in Norse mythology. Described as an immensely wise, one-eyed old man, Odin has by far the most varied characteristics of any of the gods and is not only the deity to call upon when war was being prepared...

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Loki
Loki is a god in Norse mythology who is often simply described as the 'trickster' god for his love of playing pranks on both his fellow gods and his or their opponents. Sworn brother of Odin and often the one to dig the other gods out of...

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Baldr
Baldr is a god in Norse mythology associated with light, wisdom, and courage, although he is never specifically defined as the god of any of these. He is best known for his dramatic death, which heralds the coming of Ragnarök, the end of...

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Ull
Ull (also known as Ullr), with his bow and skis, is such an elusive presence in Norse mythology that no conclusive remarks can be made about him. The 13th-century Icelandic author Snorri describes him only briefly in his Prose Edda, and he...