- fertility.
Besides Old
Norse Þórr, the
deity occurs in Old
English as
Þunor ("
Thunor"), in Old
Frisian as Thuner, in Old
Saxon as Thunar, and in Old High...
- Þórsdagr)
meaning "Thor's Day". It was
named after the
Norse god Thor.
Thunor,
Donar (German, Donnerstag) and Thor are
derived from the name of the Germanic...
-
prominent of
these deities was
probably Woden;
other prominent gods
included Thunor and Tiw.
There was also a
belief in a
variety of
other supernatural entities...
- Donar's Oak (also Thor's Oak or, via
interpretatio romana, Jove's Oak) was a
sacred tree of the
Germanic pagans located in an
unclear location around what...
- Thursday: Old
English Þūnresdæg (pronounced [ˈθuːnrezdæj]),
meaning '
Þunor's day'.
Þunor means thunder or its personification, the
Norse god
known in Modern...
-
Germanic calendar in use at that time. The
Germanic gods Woden, Frigg, Tiw and
Thunor, who are
attested to in
every Germanic tradition, were
worshipped in Wes****...
- thunder/lightning, oak trees, protection, strength, and hallowing. Also
Thunor and Donar, the Anglo-Saxon and
Continental Germanic versions, respectively...
- brontophobia. The d in
Modern English thunder (from
earlier Old
English þunor) is epenthetic, and is now
found as well in
Modern Dutch donder (cf. Middle...
- (a
deity connected to Indo-European
deities such as the
Germanic Thor or
Thunor, the
Gallic Taranis and the
Hittite Tarhunt). They re-established the hiis...
-
identical to the Proto-Germanic Thunder-god *Þun(a)raz (cf. ON Þórr, OE
Þunor, OS Thunar, OFris. Thuner, OHG Donar), and
further related to the Sanskrit...
