Thor (Tor) Germanic god who most of the Germanic languages name the day after this god: Thursday (Torsdag).
In Norse religion, Thor (from Old Norse Þórr) is a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, oak trees, strength, the protection of mankind, and also hallowing, healing, and fertility. The cognate deity in wider Germanic religion and paganism was known in Old English as Þunor and in Old High German as Donar (runic þonar ᚦᛟᚾᚨᚱ), stemming from a Common Germanic *Þunraz (meaning "thunder").
In the Roman historian Tacitus's late first-century work Germania, Tacitus refers to the god Odin as "Mercury", Thor as "Hercules", and the god Týr as "Mars

Some of all the Germanic tribes: Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Icelanders, Germans, English, Flemish, Dutch, Faroese, Frisians, Austrians, Luxembourgers, Liechtensteiners, Swiss, Vandals, Goths, Franks, Lombards, Varangian Rus, Geats, Saxons, Angles, Jutes, Suebi, Rugians, Normans, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Burgundians, Lowland Scots, Gepids,

Music: Wardruna with the song Algir- Stien klarnar

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