Myths and Legends

Thor

Finally updating this, and what better way to do so than with Thor. Please leave any and all Marvel based assumptions at the door. 

Thor is the son of Odin and his consort, Jord, and the husband of Sif, goddess of fertility, and the older brother of the Golden Boy, Baldur . Also, he's a red head....I understand that Marvel took some creative liberties, but still...anyway, Thor is a bit of a hot head which tends to lead others, mostly giants, to egg him on until he hits the problem really hard. Thor is associated with thunder, lightning, oak trees and strength and is the strongest of all the Gods and the protector of mankind in Midgard.  Now the stories mentioned are my personal favorite or were interesting. 

Before moving on, let's touch on Thor's hammer. His hammer was forged by the dwarfs Brokkr and Eitri and it's one of the most frightening weapons. Marvel actually gotMjölnir right. It can send out lightning bolts and is capable of tearing down mountains and it can hit any target. After the target is hit, the hammer will return to Thor's right hand all by itself. However, there is one thing about Mjölnir that Marvel got wrong. You have to be on the same level as Thor in order to wield Mjölnir, and I'm not talking being as worthy as Thor. I mean you have to be a god or you'd end up crapping out your spin or disintegrate or something. 

So I'm going to breeze on past Thor's involvement in the creation myth and start on this really cool party,  the story of Hymiskvitha...how to pronounce any of that is beyond me. Any way, the story begins with the Aesir having a party at Aegir's house, Aegir being a friendly neighborhood ocean Jotun who throws the best parties. Someone suggests that they party it up at his place more often, to which he agrees on the terms that someone brings in a kettle that is big enough to warm up enough ale for everyone. Thor and  Týr   goes on a quest to find one. Týr suggest stopping by his place because his dad may know where to find one, and side not a lot of Norse gods and/or goddesses ( seeing how a lot of genders fluctuate or doesn't matter anymore) are part giant. As it turns out Týr's dad owns one that's a mile deep...seeing how these are the Nords, I'm not going to question whether or not their livers still work.  Anyway, Hymir, Týr's dad, serves them dinner and let them stay the night. Thor eats everything in the figure and they had to go grocery shopping the next morning, to which Thor accidentally fishes up the Midgard Serpent ,Jörmungandr, and after fixing that, Hymir was all like " You're not that strong. If your were, you can break this glass." And Thor was like "Challenge accepted.", but couldn't break it using Mjölnir. His wife, Hymir's, whispered " Chuck it at his head." and Thor does and Hymir basically kicks them out with the kettle. Oh, Thor and Jormungand finally face each other during Ragnarok, however, when the two put an end to each other.

Moving on, I mentioned in an earlier chapter than Loki has a tendency to be an asshole, but this is one where he is sort of helpful. One morning Thor wakes up and finds that Mjölnir is missing, and everyone automatically blames Loki. Looking at his track record, it's understandable but he didn't have it. So under the threat of being worn like a shoe, Loki takes Freya's feather cloak and went to look for Thor's hammer. Turns out some Ice Jotun(his name is Thrym) had it and was willing to trade it for the goddess Freya. Loki relayed the message and everyone was like "NO!" Surprisingly,Heimdall put forth the following solution: that Thor go to Jotunheim disguised as Freya, and thereby win back his hammer and take vengeance on its thieves. Thor was like " That is the most unmanly thing( because he was the epitome of all thngs masculine in Norse culture) you have ever asked me to do" But he buckles due to pressure and he becomes a drag queen for a while, all while Loki shapeshifts into a lovely maiden...and we all just remembered Loki could do that. Loki basically spends the evening explaining why "Freya" was rocking a beard, growling at everyone, and why she was drinking just about everyone under the table. So then Thrym was like,"Want to see Thor's hammer?" which can be taken anyway you want so have at it. "Freya" was like "Oh hell ye-...I mean, of course dear." And then he reveals himself to be Thor and proceeds to hit the problem super hard. 

So yeah...Thor.Marvel sort of got it right....sort of.