Thornoun
/θɔːr//θɔːr/in Norse mythology (= ancient stories from Scandinavia), the god of thunder and the weather, who protected people and the land:
Thursday is the fourth day of the week, and is named after Thor, the hammer-wielding Norse god of thunder.
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- If we had been born Viking, we would be worshipping Thor, he said.
- Based on the mythological Norse character, Thor, the comic hero was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1962.
- The wicked giant, a descendant of the Norse god Thor, discovered one day that one of his boars had been killed.
- Thor, a sky-god, was the god of law and order.
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