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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-08 11:25:58

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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thorsday! ⚡
"Then did Thrym say,
Thurses' ruler:
'To gain the bride,
bear in the hammer.
Lay now Miolnir
in the maiden's lap.
Make us husband and wife
by the hand of Var.'"
Þryms…

Bronze figurine of a seated figure, about 6.7 cm, from about AD 1000 that was recovered at the Eyrarland farm in the area of Akureyri, Iceland. The artwork was made around 1000 CE and may depict the Norse god Thor. If the figure is correctly identified as Thor, Thor is holding his hammer, Mjölnir, sculpted in a typically Icelandic cross-like shape. It has been suggested that the statue is related to a scene from the Poetic Edda poem Thrymskvida (Þrymskviða) where Thor recovers his hammer while …