Thor and his hammer
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Think of a hall with 540 doors through which you can see everything that is happening in the world. Every night there are parties with whole roasted pigs on the menu. In this house you die every night but come back to life again every morning. This is how the Norse God Odin describes his paradise - Valhall. Vikings on a plundering raid felt honour in dying with a sword in their hand and reaching Odin’s Kingdom. Researchers estimate that the Norse religion originated around 750AD and ended after the christianisation of Norway around the year 1150. Norse mythology is different from myths that explain the worlds of the Nordic Gods. The Norse myths are about various divine beings, how the world came to be, how it is ordered and how it will eventually go under. The most well-known of the Gods was Thor. He could control the forces of nature and was the Lord of thunder and lightning. Children are still told that Thor is out with his hammer when a storm is raging and lightning flashes and thunder rumbles, then he is out driving across the sky in a chariot pulled by the two buck goats “Tanngnjost” (teeth grinder) and “Tanngrisne” (snarler). Thor is also a superhero in the American Marvel universe together with others such as Hulk, Iron Man and Captain America.