Thor

Role: god · First appears: Book Three · Part 3

Life events

Hother and Helgi fought a naval battle against Balder and the gods.(Book Three · Part 3)
- With: Hother Helgi (King of Halogaland) Balder Odin
- “Amid all the desires of their souls the passion of valour prevailed, and a naval battle was fought with Balder.”
Hother hewed off Thor’s club at the haft, causing the gods to flee.(Book Three · Part 3)
- With: Hother
- “Thus the victory would have passed to the gods, but that Hother, though his line had already fallen back, darted up, hewed off the club at the haft, and made it useless. And the gods, when they had lost this weapon, fled incontinently.”
Thor tore off four of Starkad's hands, leaving him with two.(Book Six · Part 6)
- With: Starkad
- “the god Thor tore off, shattering the framework of the sinews and wrenching from his whole body the monstrous bunches of fingers; so that he had but two left”
Thor drove red-hot irons through Geirrod, tearing up the mountain and battering through its side.(Book Eight · Part 18)
- With: Geirrod
- “long ago the god Thor had been provoked by the insolence of the giants to drive red-hot irons through the vitals of Geirrod, who strove with him, and that the iron had slid further, torn up the mountain, and battered through its side”

enemies with Hother “However, Thor was swinging his club with marvellous might, and shattered all interposing shields, calling as loudly on his foes to attack him as upon his friends to back him up.”

enemies with Starkad (A fabulous tradition reports Thor injuring Starkad.) “For some relate that he was sprung from giants, and betrayed his monstrous birth by an extraordinary number of hands, four of which, engendered by the superfluity of his nature, they declare that the god Thor tore off, shattering the framework of the sinews and wrenching from his whole body the monstrous bunches of fingers; so that he had but two left, and that his body, which had before swollen to the size of a giant's, and, by reason of its shapeless crowd of limbs looked gigantic, was thenceforth chastened to a better appearance, and kept within the bounds of human shortness.”
parent: Odin (The chapter states the parentage earlier: “Thor was Odin's son.”) “Therefore, when the Latins, believing to the contrary effect, declare that Mercury was sprung from Jove, then, if their declaration is to stand, we are driven to consider that Thor was not the same as Jove, and that Odin was also different from Mercury. Some say that the gods, whom our countrymen worshipped, shared only the title with those honoured by Greece or Latium, but that, being in a manner nearly equal to them in dignity, they borrowed from them the worship as well as the name.”

enemies with Geirrod “long ago the god Thor had been provoked by the insolence of the giants to drive red-hot irons through the vitals of Geirrod, who strove with him”

Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.