Þórr
The Thunderer. God of the common people. He eats, he drinks, he fights. He never stops.
Red beard. Iron fists.
Snorri says it in Gylfaginning: Thor has a red beard. Not brown. Red. The reddest of the gods. He is the strongest of the Æsir — and the least subtle. He eats an entire ox at a single sitting (Útgarða-Loki's hall). He nearly drains the sea when tricked into drinking from a horn connected to the ocean.
He is not the god of kings. He is the god of farmers, fishermen, the working people. Thor protects Midgard — the human realm. While Odin sits on his throne seeing all worlds, Thor walks among the people and kills the things that threaten them.
His name means thunder. From Proto-Germanic *Þunraz. He IS the storm.
Mjölnir. The short handle.
The dwarves Brokkr and Sindri forged Mjölnir — but Loki, as a fly, bit Brokkr's eyelid during the forging and the bellows faltered. The handle came out too short. It was supposed to be a flaw. Instead it became the most devastating weapon in all nine worlds.
Thor wears the iron gloves Járngreipr to wield it, and the belt Megingjörð that doubles his already impossible strength. His chariot is pulled by Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr — two goats he slaughters and eats every night, who are reborn from their bones each morning.
Loki bit Brokkr's eyelid as the bellows reached their third pump. The dwarf flinched. The bellows faltered for a single breath. The handle came out too short. Brokkr finished the work anyway, knowing what he had made was less than he had intended. The gods received the hammer and crowned it the greatest weapon in the nine worlds. Some flaws are the part the world remembers.
He kills the serpent.
At Ragnarök, Thor faces Jörmungandr — the World Serpent, Loki's child, the creature that encircles the entire world. Thor strikes the killing blow with Mjölnir. The serpent falls. Then Thor takes nine steps and falls himself — poisoned by the serpent's venom.
Nine steps. That's all he gets. But the serpent is dead. Midgard is saved. The god of the common people dies protecting the common people. Every time.
"Then Thor became angry, seized the hammer with both hands, and the earth itself shook with the force of his rage."— ÞRYMSKVIÐA · POETIC EDDA
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