Osobiście jestem zadowolony z tego dzieła - to chyba najlepsze, jakie mi wyszło. Sądzę, że całkiem nieźle połączyłem staronordycki styl malowania z nowoczesną grafiką komputerową.
Thor (ze st. skand. Þórr - grom) - jeden z głównych bogów nordyckich z dynastii Asów, odpowiednik południowogermańskiego Donara. Bóstwo burzy i piorunów, bóg sił witalnych, bóg rolnictwa, jako sprowadzający deszcz odpowiedzialny za urodzaje, patronował także ognisku domowemu i małżeństwu. Syn Odyna i Jörd, małżonek Sif.
Thor był uznawany za bliższego ludziom niż Odyn - jest równie gwałtowny, ale mniej tajemniczy. Przedstawiano go zwykle z długą, rudą brodą i młotem Mjöllnir w ręku - symbolem jego siły. Drzewem poświęconym Thorowi był dąb. Podróżował rydwanem zaprzężonym w kozły. Nie był tak przebiegły jak Odyn i zdarzało mu się wpaść w pułapkę (przykładem tego jest słynna przygoda Thora w gościnie u króla Utgardu, olbrzyma zwanego Lokim), ostatecznie jednak zawsze zwyciężał. W czasie Ragnaroku zabije on Węża Midgardu wielkiego Jormungandra, lecz zginie zatruty jego jadem. Od jego imienia pochodzi nazwa czwartku w języku norweskim, duńskim, szwedzkim i angielskim (Torsdag, Thursday = 'dzień Thora'.
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Thor (Old Norse: Þórr) is the red-haired and bearded god of thunder in Germanic paganism and its subset Norse paganism. The god is also recorded in Old English as Þunor, Old Saxon as Thunaer, as Old Dutch and Old High German: Donar, all of which are names deriving from the Proto-Germanic *Þunraz.
Most surviving stories relating to Germanic paganism either mention Thor or centre on Thor's exploits. Thor was a much revered god of the ancient Germanic peoples from at least the earliest surviving written accounts of the indigenous Germanic tribes to over a thousand years later during the last bastions of Germanic paganism in the late Viking Age.
Thor was appealed to for protection on numerous objects found from various Germanic tribes and Miniature replicas of Mjolnir, the weapon of Thor, became a defiant symbol of Norse paganism during the Christianization of Scandinavia.
During and after the process of Christianization was complete, Thor was demonized by the growing influence of Christian missionaries. After Christian influence was cemented in law, traces of belief went increasingly underground into mainly rural areas, surviving until modern times into Germanic folklore and most recently reconstructed to varying degrees in Germanic neopaganism.
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