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An 1854 diagram of the steam hammer invented by James Nasmyth (1808-1890) in 1839. The hammer used steam power to precision drop a weight which bent metal to specification. (From Cyclopædia of useful arts, mechanical...

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...

A Royal Mint steam hammer, a device invented by James Nasmyth (1808-1890) in 1839 during the Industrial Revolution. (The Science Museum, London)

Vidar is a figure in Norse mythology, described as the silent god and almost as mighty as Thor. He will survive Ragnarök, the unavoidable and dramatic end of the world according to the prophecy that chief-god Odin extracts from a seeress...

The Frohnauer Hammer Museum contains a hammer forge from the 17th century CE. The water channel provides the water necessary for the waterwheel to run the three tilt hammers inside the hammer forge.

Depiction connected with Norse mythology based on the Old Norse Þrymskviða poem in which Thor dresses up as Freyja to travel to giantland - the giant Thrym has stolen his hammer and demands Freyja as condition for its return...

The inside of the Frohnauer Hammer museum, a preserved hammer forge from the 17th century CE.

Norse cosmology divided the universe into nine realms. The center of the universe was the great world-tree Yggdrasil and the nine realms either spread out from the tree or existed in levels stretching from the roots...

The Kon-Tiki Expedition (1947) was an experimental voyage led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002), designed to test the feasibility of long-distance ocean travel using ancient technologies...

Thor fighting the mighty giant serpent Jörmungandr during a fishing trip with Hymir the giant. Painting by Henry Fuseli, 1788. Royal Academy of Arts, London.