And since, in our thor oughly commercialized world, recognition is also measured in monetary terms, folk culture representatives are demanding more than just lip ser vice. |
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A decision on wheth er someone is well enough to work is taken following a thor ough assessment and after con sideration of all supportingmedical evidence. |
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When he was in Hesse he approached the town of Geismar and came upon a oak tree sacred to Thor, the German god of thunder. |
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For generations, stories have been told of the fearsome weapon of the Norse god Thor. |
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Still, everyone has to earn a living, and Thor is jolly, boisterous, and altogether honorably executed. |
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And when Thor Odinson is deemed unworthy, his hammer will pass on to an unnamed woman. |
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Details about the cold permeate every aspect of the story, but never distract the reader from finding out about Thor. |
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And instead of choosing to drop the Thor bombshell at the upcoming San Diego Comic Con, Marvel revealed the change on The View. |
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To bring peace to the land, the god Thor hurled thunderbolts from the heavens, carving countless deep grooves along the coast. |
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Why would Kristen choose to cheat with her swath director when she had Thor the god of thunder on the same movie set? |
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The move came one day after the comic book company introduced a female Thor. |
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It is clearly unlawful discrimination, and there should be equality for Loki as well as for Thor, as we say in Denmark. |
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The 90th element was discovered in 1829 by J. J. Brezelium and named after the Scandinavian god of thunder, Thor. |
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Ogre emerged sporting a large lupine mask, flanked by Key on a synth riser, a live drummer and a guitarist wielding a double-necked axe straight out of a Thor video. |
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According to movie website JoBlo, we'll be seeing the Hulk and Thor teaming up way before the third Avengers film in Thor: Ragnarok. |
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Conquering TV, without the help of Iron Man, Captain America, Thor or the Hulk. |
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On shore, Hymir suggests that Thor should help him carry a whale back to his farm. |
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Thor picks both the boat and the whales up, and carries it all back to Hymir's farm. |
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Thor does not attend the event, however, as he is away in the east for unspecified purposes. |
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The god Freyr's servant Beyla interjects, and says that, since all of the mountains are shaking, she thinks that Thor is on his way home. |
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Beyla adds that Thor will bring peace to the quarrel, to which Loki responds with insults. |
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Thor arrives and tells Loki to be silent, and threatens to rip Loki's head from his body with his hammer. |
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Thor again tells him to be silent, and threatens to throw him into the sky, where he will never be seen again. |
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Thor again tells him to be silent, threatening to break every bone in Loki's body. |
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Thor responds with a fourth call to be silent, and threatens to send Loki to Hel. |
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Thor turns to Loki, and tells him that nobody knows that the hammer has been stolen. |
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Freyja agrees, and says she would lend it to Thor even if it were made of silver or gold, and Loki flies off, the feather cloak whistling. |
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Thor eats and drinks ferociously, consuming entire animals and three casks of mead. |
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Thor finds the dwarf repulsive and, apparently, realizes that the bride is his daughter. |
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Thor comments that the wedding agreement was made among the gods while Thor was gone, and that the dwarf must seek his consent. |
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Odin is a remote descendant of Thor, removed by twelve generations, who led an expedition across Germany, Denmark and Sweden to Norway. |
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Tales about Thor, or influenced by native traditions regarding Thor, continued into the modern period, particularly in Scandinavia. |
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The swastika symbol has been identified as representing the hammer or lightning of Thor. |
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In this way Thor, as well as Odin, may be seen to continue the cult of the sky god which was known in the Bronze Age. |
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Sprague de Camp's Harold Shea met with Thor, as with other Norse gods, in the very first of Shea's many fantasy adventures. |
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The team named the shrew after Thor due to the god's association with strength. |
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In the polytheistic Germanic tradition, it was possible to worship Jesus next to the native gods like Woden and Thor. |
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Iconographic material suggesting other deities are less common that those connected to Thor. |
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From the same year Macmillan permitted the US Navy to station Polaris submarines at Holy Loch, Scotland, as a replacement for Thor. |
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For this is the Yuletide, and the heathen people of the forest are gathered at the thunder-oak of Geismar to worship their god, Thor. |
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In addition to being god of thunder, Thor is also the god of war and strongest of the Aesir, the principal race of the Norse gods. |
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Race officials docked the Manx missile for a mid-race tangle with Norway's Thor Hushovd on the 198km ride from Olonne-sur-mer to Redon. |
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The exams are conducted in a 39-foot Airstream Land Yacht XL, owned by Thor Industries and designed specifically for prostate cancer screenings. |
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Tom Hiddleston has revealed he has been able to change Loki slightly in the Thor sequel The Dark World. |
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Recent films such as Clash of the Titans, Immortals and Thor continue the trend of mining traditional mythology to frame modern plots. |
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Like other Germanic deities, veneration of Thor is revived in the modern period in Heathenry. |
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Two objects with runic inscriptions invoking Thor date from the 11th century, one from England and one from Sweden. |
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The first, the Canterbury Charm from Canterbury, England, calls upon Thor to heal a wound by banishing a thurs. |
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The second, the Kvinneby amulet, invokes protection by both Thor and his hammer. |
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The placename may reflect worship of Thor there by Danes during the Viking Age rather than by Angles during the Roman Iron Age. |
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The settlers of Iceland were predominantly pagans and worshiped the Norse gods, among them Odin, Thor, Freyr and Freyja. |
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In Rick Riordan's novel The Hammer of Thor, Hearthstone, an elf, must pay a wergild for his brother Andriron's death when they were children. |
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Hrungnir states that Thor is under their protection, and subsequently he can't be harmed while in Valhalla. |
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After an exchange of words, Hrungnir challenges Thor to a duel at the location of Griotunagardar, resulting in Hrungnir's death. |
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Scandinavia has many theophoric placenames, in particular named after Odin or after Thor. |
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Into the modern period, Thor continued to be acknowledged in rural folklore throughout Germanic regions. |
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Thor has inspired numerous works of art and references to Thor appear in modern popular culture. |
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Hymir tells him to go get some bait from his pasture, which he expects should not be a problem for Thor. |
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Hymir catches a few whales at once, and Thor baits his line with the head of the ox. |
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Thor pulls the serpent on board, and violently slams him in the head with his hammer. |
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From Transformers 3 to Pirates 4, Green Lantern to Thor, the Harry Potter climax to the Spider-Man reboot, almost any picture aiming to dominate the box office is now filmed stereoscopically. |
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The war of the worlds is ignited by the rebellion of Loki against Thor — the wrathful perverter of a distantly alien religion that preaches peace with Earth. |
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Alberto Contador and Thor Hushovd are a picture of contentment, having a nice chat as they drift along with the gentles of breezes drifting up their backsides. |
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Odin charges into battle and engages the Fenris Wolf with Thor at his side, unable to help as he has his own battle to fight against the Midgard Serpent Jormungand. |
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He looked like a figure of Thor as his untrembling arm rose and fell, driving deeper and deeper the mercy-bearing stake, whilst the blood from the pierced heart welled and spurted up around it. |
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In 2011, she was persuaded to return to the screen in Kenneth Branagh's Thor as Queen Frigga, opposite Anthony Hopkins. |
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It suffers horribly from the absence of Loki, the magnificently weedy adoptive brother of Thor who was played by Tom Hiddleston in the first film. |
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We want to establish our identity and have people love the characters and not just be waiting round for an Iron Man reference, or 'Oh, you just missed Thor! |
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Annika Thor has won numerous prizes for her books for young people and will soon be introduced to the English speaking world for the first time with A Faraway Island in Linda Schenck's translation. |
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Norway's Thor Hushovd takes rainbow jersey. |
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Almost all programmes on Thor, however, are encrypted. |
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Loki was represented as the companion of the great gods Odin and Thor, helping them with his clever plans but sometimes causing embarrassment and difficulty for them and himself. |
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Thor IN THE fantastic realm of Asgard, ruled by Odin and his wife Frigga, Thor is an arrogant heir to the throne. |
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The ferryman, shouting from the inlet, is immediately rude and obnoxious to Thor and refuses to ferry him. |
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Around 500 AD, many of the Gods of the Norse pantheon had lost their previous significance, except a few such as Thor, Odin and Frey who were increasingly worshipped. |
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Freyr and Thor are each associated with weddings in some literary sources. |
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As Thor rushes her to Asgard for safety, the dark elves attack in spaceships searching for the weapon and Loki escapes with his sneer still intact. |
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Chris Hemsworth as Thor gives his action deity an impressive hunky turn once again but Tom Hiddleston's Loki robs all thunder from the entire cast. |
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Thor rose from beside the rock with a prodigious whoof that roused Muskwa. |
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In modern times, Thor continues to be referred to in popular culture. |
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The Eyrarland Statue, a copper alloy figure found near Akureyri, Iceland dating from around the 11th century, may depict Thor seated and gripping his hammer. |
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Thor goes out, finds Hymir's best ox, and rips its head off. |
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However, it is doubtful that they were dedicated specifically to Thor. |
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In Norse mythology, largely recorded in Iceland from traditional material stemming from Scandinavia, numerous tales and information about Thor are provided. |
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In the prologue to his Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson euhemerises Thor as a prince of Troy, and the son of king Memnon by Troana, a daughter of Priam. |
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Thor hadn't started out at the top of my hit list that year. |
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The warfare and violence of the Vikings were often motivated and fuelled by their beliefs in Norse religion, focusing on Thor and Odin, the gods of war and death. |
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Eventually, the gods tire of his boasting and invoke Thor, who arrives. |
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As the poem starts, Thor meets a dwarf who talks about getting married. |
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In Norse mythology, the oak was sacred to the thunder god, Thor. |
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