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Thor converses with Alvíss while protecting his daughter. Illustration by W. G. Collingwood "Sun Shines in the Hall" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood. Alvíssmál (Old Norse: 'The Song of All-wise' or 'The Words of All-wise') [1] [2] is a poem collected in the Poetic Edda, probably dating to the 12th century, that describes how the god Thor outwits a dwarf called Alvíss ("All-Wise") who seeks to ...
In the poem Alvíssmál, the god Thor questions the dwarf Alvíss about the Sun, asking him what the Sun is called in each of the worlds. Alvíss responds that it is called "sun" by mankind, "sunshine" by the gods, " Dvalinn 's deluder" by the dwarves, "everglow" by the jötnar , "the lovely wheel" by the elves , and "all-shining" by the "sons ...
Thor Were an Only Child?" is the seventh episode of the first season of the American animated television series What If...?, based on the Marvel Comics series of the same name. It explores what would happen if the events of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Thor (2011) occurred differently, with Thor growing up without his adopted ...
In the poem, he is described as the "true(st) light of the sun" (soðfæsta sunnan leoma) and as the "brightest of angels [≈ messengers]" (engla beorhtast). This portrayal suggests the idea of a heavenly or divine radiance sent both physically and metaphorically over the earth for the benefit of mankind.
Hárbarðsljóð [1] (Old Norse: 'The Lay of Hárbarðr') [2] is one of the poems of the Poetic Edda, found in the Codex Regius and AM 748 I 4to manuscripts. It is a flyting poem with figures from Norse Paganism. Hárbarðsljóð was first written down in the late 13th century but may have had an older history as an oral poem. [3]
Thor: Love and Thunder takes influence from many Marvel Comics. Here are the best of the bunch.
The principal subject of the poem is a narrative relating as to how Thor came by his hammer, Mjolnir (Mjǫlnir), and, as is usually the case in stories with Thor, how the giants came off worse. Behind it all, of course, is Loki, who gulls Thor into a confrontation with the giant Geirrod (Geirrǫðr).
The Skáldskaparmál is both a retelling of Norse legend as well as a treatise on poetry. It is unusual among surviving medieval European works as a poetic treatise written both in and about the poetry of a local vernacular language, Old Norse; other Western European works of the era were on Latin language poetry, as Latin was the language of scholars and learning.