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Surtur is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly as an enemy of Thor. Based on the fire giant Surtr from Norse mythology , he was adapted by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby , and first appeared in Journey into Mystery #97 (October 1963).
The Giant with the Flaming Sword (1909) by John Charles Dollman. In Norse mythology, Surtr (Old Norse "black" [1] or more narrowly "swart", [2] Surtur in modern Icelandic), also sometimes written Surt in English, [3] is a jötunn; he is the greatest of the fire giants, who serves as the guardian of Muspelheim which is along with Niflheim, the only two realms to exist before the beginning of ...
Surtur / ˈ s ɜːr t ər / or Saturn XLVIII (provisional designation S/2006 S 7) is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard , David C. Jewitt , Jan Kleyna , and Brian G. Marsden on June 26, 2006 from observations taken between January and April 2006.
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Lindsay borrowed the names "Surtur" and "Muspel" from Surtr, the lord of Múspellsheimr, [13] shown here in a 1909 painting by John Charles Dollman. Lindsay's choice of title (and therefore the setting in Arcturus ) may have been influenced by the nonfictional A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora (1911), a book by his namesake, David ...
Thor manages to defeat Surtur, and claims the Twilight Sword. Thor then destroys the Twilight, which releases its Scabrite-filled energy which in turn is absorbed by Mjolnir . Thor then returns to Asgard, where Loki tells him that before he faces Mangog he has to help Heimdall and a fully recovered Sif retake the Bifrost's observatory.
After Odin and Surtur disappear, Frigga organizes an 'Althing', where all of Asgard will choose a new ruler. [5] The result is that Balder is chosen as the new ruler. [volume & issue needed] In addition, Frigga had supervised the location and training of the apprentices to the Celestials, the Young Gods.
Viktor Rydberg proposed that the name Sinmara is composed of sin, meaning "sinew", and mara, meaning "the one that maims", noting that mara is related to the verb merja (citing Guðbrandur Vigfússon's dictionary [b]), Rydberg concludes that the name Sinmara thus means "the one who maims by doing violence to the sinews," thus identifying her as Nidhad's wife, who orders Völund's sinews cut to ...