"It seems to me clear that Thor was not a god at all but a hero. Nothing resembling a religion would picture anybodying resembling a god as groping like a pigmy in a great cavern, that turned out to be the glove of a giant. That is the glorious ignorance called adventure. Thor may have been a great adventurer; but to call him a god is like trying to compare Jehovah with Jack and the Beanstalk."
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G.K. Chesterton, in The Everlasting Man (1925), Ch. 5
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Thor
Thor (/θɔr/; from Old Norse Þórr) is a hammer-wielding god of , associated with thunder, lightning, storms, oak trees, strength, the protection of humankind, and also hallowing, healing and fertility. A son of Odin, in wider Germanic mythology and paganism he was also known in Old English as Þunor and in Old High German as Donar (runic þonar ᚦᛟᚾᚨᚱ), stemming from a Common Germanic *Þunraz, meaning "thunder".
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