I would like to ask a question about Thor. Does Thor have real-life mythology, and if so, why did Marvel choose to use him as a main franchise instead of other mythological people? How are they ...

Ragnarok isn’t just the end of Marvel’s Thor as we know him; it’s the end of the world. At least it is in Norse mythology. Told of primarily in the 13th century Old Norse texts, the Poetic ...

Mathias Nordvig, a professor of Norse mythology, sits down with WIRED to compare and contrast Marvel's interpretations of Norse gods. Dr. Nordvig goes into great detail about everything from Thor ...

Myths never die; they just find new ways to be told. For all its melodrama, Thor is a broad (and very liberal) "retelling" of Norse mythology. It even includes the great world-shaking battle ...

The American superhero movie Thor was an instant hit when it was released in 2011, with Chris Hemsworth playing the muscle-bound title character. Over in northern Europe, the real-life Thor was ...

Of all the amazing and fantastic superhero weapons we’ve seen brought to life on the ... job to make it real. He explained that there are actually four different versions of Thor’s hammer ...

There’s a Viking ship, being towed through space by two giant goats, and that’s what Thor rides around on in this movie. And that’s from the mythology! So I get people who are like ‘It’s ...