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Thor Coloring Pages
Thor was the strongest of the Norse gods, and the one most likely to solve a problem by hitting it with a hammer.
Jump to: God of Thunder | Defender of Asgard | Thor and Sif | Mjölnir | Thor's Goats | The Wedding Dress | Giants and the Serpent | Ragnarök | Little Thor
Thor was the god ordinary Norse people loved best. He guarded Asgard and kept the giants out of the human world, and farmers counted on his storms for rain. Plenty of Vikings wore a little hammer on a necklace for luck, and plenty of those necklaces have turned up in archaeological digs.
Thor, Norse God of Thunder
Thor was the son of Odin and Earth herself, which might explain the weather. His moods were the storm. A good mood meant rain for the crops, and a bad one meant lightning. He had a red beard, a laugh like thunder and an appetite to match.
Defender of Asgard
Whenever giants came for Asgard, Thor was the first one through the gate. He never had a battle plan. He had a hammer. Odin made the plans and Thor made the dents. Thinking things through was never his talent, which is where Loki came in. Loki was Odin's blood-brother, so he counted as Thor's almost-brother, and he lived in Asgard like family. Thor solved problems with might and Loki solved them with wit. They got on each other's nerves constantly, and they were rarely seen apart.
Thor and Sif
Thor's heart belonged to Sif, whose golden hair was as bright as ripe wheat. Then one night Loki cut every strand off as a joke. Thor's answer was to threaten to break every bone in Loki's body. Loki, who could talk his way out of almost anything, promised to fix it and ran off to the dwarves. They made new hair out of real gold, and it grew on Sif's head like the old.
Mjölnir, Thor's Hammer
Loki had bet the dwarves couldn't make better gifts for the gods than the golden hair, and the best gift of all turned out to be a hammer for Thor. It never missed and always flew back to his hand. It has one flaw. The handle is a little short, because Loki turned into a fly and bit the dwarf working the bellows to spoil the job. Thor didn't mind. He wears iron gloves to catch the hammer and a belt of strength that makes him twice as mighty, so the short handle never slowed him down.
Thor's Goats
At home Thor was just as big and loud. He didn't ride a horse. His chariot was pulled by two goats, and the rumble of its wheels was the thunder people heard in a storm. The goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, were also dinner. Every night Thor cooked them, and every morning he tapped the bones with his hammer and they hopped up as good as new. Then one day a farmer's son cracked a bone to get at the marrow, and a goat woke up limping. Thor gripped his hammer so hard his knuckles went white. The farmer begged forgiveness and Thor cooled off, which is how Thor's temper works: huge and fast, then over. The farmer's son ended up travelling with him as a helper.
The Wedding Dress
One morning Thor woke up and his hammer was gone, and for once smashing things wouldn't help. So Loki borrowed a falcon cloak, flew to the land of the giants and found out that a giant named Thrym had it. Thrym would only give it back for a bride, and the bride he wanted was Freya. Freya said absolutely not. So the gods dressed Thor in a wedding gown and veil, with a ring of keys jingling at his belt. Thor hated every minute of it. Loki went along as the bridesmaid to do the talking, and he needed to. The bride ate a whole ox and eight salmon and drank three barrels of mead, and when the giants stared Loki explained that she was just too excited to have eaten in days. Then they set the hammer in the bride's lap to bless the marriage, and Thor grabbed it. Thor grabs and Loki talks. That is their whole friendship in one scene.
Giants and the Serpent
Thor never tried to outsmart a giant. He just hit them, and most of them stayed hit. But there was one he couldn't finish. On a fishing trip with a giant, Thor used an ox head as bait and hooked Jörmungandr, the serpent that circles the whole world. Thor pulled so hard that his feet went right through the bottom of the boat. The giant panicked and cut the line, and the serpent slid back into the deep. Thor was furious, and he and the serpent were not finished with each other.
Valhalla and Ragnarök
Stories say that at Ragnarök, the final battle, the serpent rises from the sea and Thor goes straight for it. The warriors of Valhalla march out to fight beside the gods. Loki is there too, but this time he sails with the giants, and Thor's almost-brother is now on the other side. Thor wins. He kills the serpent with his hammer, takes nine steps and then falls, because its poison is too strong even for him. But the story doesn't end there. Thor's two sons survive, and when the world begins again they pick up the hammer.
Little Thor
Hardly any stories show Thor as a boy, so artists get to imagine him however they like. One thing never changes. Even a pint-sized Thor gets the big hammer.
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The god Thor from Norse Mythology
Thor is easy to spot in a crowd: a big red beard, a hammer and a cape that snaps in the wind. His beard and hair look wonderful in fiery reds and coppers, and his cape looks great in deep red. His hammer shines in steel grey with a touch of silver, and a streak of electric blue or yellow turns any lightning bolt into the real thing.