Talk:Thor

message: I don't see why the runic inscriptions Canterbury Charm and the Kvinneby amulet are kept under "Viking Age", while the runestones were kept under "archaeology". Runestones are Viking Age documents carved in stone, and they fall under the discipline of Nordic linguistics.--Berig (talk) 06:50, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: You've got a point here—we should probably move all written references to Thor, including rune stone inscriptions, into the appropriate section of the body. :bloodofox: (talk) 01:40, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Structure

message: So, part of footnote 16 references the 1910 (11th ed.) of Encyclopædia Brittanica, pp 608, "regarding usage of Thunor as an Old English gloss for Jupiter." This is nonsense, and pp 608 talks chiefly about the Swiss canton of Grisons. https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabrit12chisrich/page/608/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater The link is here so that anyone can see it. I am removing that part of the footnote; I really can't stand this kind of lack of academic integrity where someone just haphazardly throws some page numbers on some book they've (probably) never even read to try to make a point. Oh, and also, what is North 1998?! (the other part of that same footnote) It's not even in the list of references!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vindafarna (talk • contribs) 01:28, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Footnote 16 removal 

message: Depending on the source Thor's mother is either Jörð or Fjörgyn. Although, Jörð and Fjörgyn may have been the same being as scholars have found evidence that Fjörgyn could have been used as an alternative name for Jörð, instead of Fjörgyn being a separate entity. Treetoes023 (talk) 20:23, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jörð and Fjörgyn 

message: I am not seeing where in citation 1 (which is actually more of a note) that it says that Thor was red haired.  It does read  If this is intended to support the statement that Thor was red haired, then it is simply original research and a faulty interpretation of the Prose Edda, which actually says that Thor's hair was "fairer than gold". The Prose Edda doesn't offer any more evidence that Thor was red haired than it does that he was grey haired or purple haired; indeed it tends to suggest he was blond haired. Although the notion of Thor's red beard is widely acknowledged by major scholars, Seigfried also notes that this is easily disproven.
The article elsewhere reads  Yet the notion of red hair doesn't seem to be in the citation given. It says on page 746 (point 11) that Indra wears a "golden beard", with the adjoining point for Thor being that he angrily shakes his beard. I'm not seeing aything on pages 744-749 to suggest that either of these figures were red haired. - Hunan201p (talk) 23:46, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @Hunan201p and @Bloodofox since this was recently removed from the lead, would it be appropriate to add it to one of the body sections? TylerBurden (talk) 03:59, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: A dedicated section on scholarship around the topic of the color red and Thor under reception would be appropriate. :bloodofox: (talk) 17:50, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Original research?

message: In the section "Name", there is a link to WP article "Interpretatio_graeca#Interpretatio_germanica". However, that section of the article has appearently been moved to its own article, "Interpretatio_germanica". Please update the link. 109.108.203.236 (talk) 04:03, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. TylerBurden (talk) 19:42, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to Interpretatio_germanica 

message: Additional info / links for the modern influence / cultural references which may be appropriate or useful:
Douglas Adams 1988 novel The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul prominently features the character of Thor, along with other characters from the norse pantheon. 
Chris Columbus 1987 film Adventures in Babysitting features a character mistaken for the (Marvel comic) iteration of Thor, who later grows into the role. 82.5.187.217 (talk) 14:33, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern influence