This is an exploration of how the legend of Thor has been adopted,
adapted and transformed through history. The myths of the Norse god
Thor were preserved in the Icelandic Eddas, set down in the early
Middle Ages. The bane of giants and trolls, Thor was worshipped as
the last line of defence against all that threatened early Nordic
society. Thor's significance persisted long after the Christian
conversion and, in the mid-eighteenth century, Thor resumed a
symbolic prominence among northern countries. Admired and adopted
in Scandinavia and Germany, he became central to the rhetoric of
national romanticism and to more belligerent assertions of
nationalism. Resurrected in the latter part of the twentieth
century in "Marvel Magazine", Thor was further transformed into an
articulation both of an anxious male sexuality and of a parallel
nervousness regarding American foreign policy. Martin Arnold
explores the extraordinary regard in which Thor has been held since
medieval times and considers why and how his myth has been adopted,
adapted and transformed.
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