Thor is the god of bad weather. Rain and thunder follows him, wherever he is. He has a hammer called Mjölnr to cause thunder and to kill his opponents. Whenever he throws his hammer, the hammer returns, like a boomerang. He also has special gloves to handle his hammer, and a special belt giving him extra power.

He lives in Thrudwang, an area of permanent low pressure, in a house called Bilskirnir. This house has sixhundredandfourty rooms and a hugh gutter. He is married with Sif, a bald wife with a wig made of gold, and children Magni and Modi that will one day inherit Mjönr. Because one day Thor is going to die, killed by the poisened breath of the Midgardsnake, after he killed her with his hammer.

Thor isn't the most clever of all gods. Sometimes the other gods like to make a fool of him. For example, one day his own father Odin disguised as a ferryman named Harbard. Thor was walking over the earth, it was raining, and he arrived on a river. He saw the ferryman with his boat on the other side and called him. But Odin/Harbard just answered: "Who are you? Thor, the god? To me, you are just a bandit. Go home, you will find your mother dead, go home, you will find your wife with her lover there. I won't carry you over the river." "Take care", answered Thor, "I fighted with giants and killed them, so beware when I will get on the other side." "While you were out to fight with giants, I stayed home in bed with some beautiful sweet girls, having my fun. What else did you do?" "I killed Thiassi, the Thurs, the son of Alwadis. What did you do in the meantime?" "All kinds of love play with some witches I temptated. What else did you do?" "I was in the east, I fighted with the sons of Swarang. They threw stones at me, but I overcame them. What did you do meanwhile?" "I was in the east, laying with a beautiful white and golden girl, delighting her. But anyway, I will not carry you over that river." "So show me the way." "Turn left, and you will find a ford. If you hurry, you will there before sun sets." So they parted, the dark clouds still raining.

Other people liked to make a fool of Thor too. Once Thor meet a guy named Utgarda-Loki (it was a stormy day, it was raining), and Utgarda-Loki provocted him to give some probes of his force. He gave Thor a horn and said: "If someone empties this horn with one gulp, this is considered a good drinking; some empities it in two gulps, but hardly someone is such a bad drinker that he doesn't empty it in three gulps." And now Snorri Sturluson tells longwinded how Thor takes three giant gulps, but hardly empties the horn. Utgarda-Loki acted as if being disappointed, then he suggested Thor to try to pull up his cat. Thor tried, but managed only to pull up one foot of the cat. So Utgarda-Loki said: "It is a big cat, but Thor seems to be just a little dwarf if he can't pull up the cat." "Now I am going to be angry, will somebody fight with me?" "I don't think anybody here will think it honourable to fight with you, but maybe my old nurse Elli will fight with you". And so Thor fighted with Elli, but couldn't move her and finally was forced on his knees by her.
The next day, Thor and Utgarda-Loki parted. Standing in front of Utgarda-Loki's castle, he said: "Now we are outside the castle, I will tell you the truth. You shall never return here, as long as I life. I wouldn't let have entered you if I would have known how strong you are. When you drank from the horn, the horn was connected to the sea, and an incredible miracle happened: you drank so much that the level of the ocean sank. The cat was in fact the Midgard-snake encircling the world, biting its own tail. No man ever lift one of her feet before. And my nurse Elli is in fact the age, defeating any man - no man before has stood as long as you in a fight with her. And now we will part, and it will be better for both of us that we will never see again, as I will protect my castle with my sorcery against you." And Thor threw his hammer, but Utgarda-Loki had disappeared. He turned to the castle, but also the castle had disappeared. So Thor walked back home through the rain.

Although Thor is not the most intellectual god, the other gods need him to protect them against the giants. Thor is the one to kill the giants and their wives.
One day, one grey day (it was raining that day), Thor woke up and the hammer turned out to be missing. Loki, using Freyas wings, soon found out that the hammer was stolen by Thrym. Thrym was willing to give the hammer back, but he demanded what the nameless giant that constructed Walhalla also did demand: Freya, the goddess of love and youth. Of course Freya recented to marry Thrym, so the gods had to come of with a trick. They disguised Thor as a bride, with perls and stone and a veil and a bridal dress. And so Thor, disguised as Freya, went to Thrym and they held their wedding. Thrym was wondering how that person he believed to be Freya ate and drank, but Loki, disguised as Thor's maid, explained to him: "Not did Freya ate for eight nights, longing for Gianthome." Thrym take a look under the veil, finding a pair of frigthening flashing eyes, but Loki explained. "Eight nights the bride didn't sleep, so much longing for Gianthome". So Thrym want to be married with his bride and took the hammer and gave it to his bride, and Thor put his hammer and hit all the giants, starting with Thrym, and smashed them dead.

[Once a giant named Typhoeus with twohundred arms and thousend heads, only few of them with a human face, stole the flashs of Zeus. All the gods tried to hide, and Typhoeus was cutting Zeus' sinews, pulling them out of his body, making him helpless, hiding Zeus and his tendons and the flashs in a cave. Now he was the ruler of the universe.
A mortal human came along. He played a melody on his flute. Typhoeus was delighted. He promised the mortal one (Kadmos was his name) the virgin body of Athene, or Artemis or Aphrodite or Hebe, any goddess except Hera, because Hera had to be his, for he was the ruler of the universe. He suggested a combat: flute against flashes.
Not worth the trouble, said Kadmos, a simple flute cannot compare with flashes. It would be different with a lyra, but he had no strings for a good lyra. And he told a story about how he defeated once Apollon with his lyra, making the god destroy his instrument in his anger, and that with his lyra, he could stop the movement of the planets and enchant the wild beasts. So Typhoeus handed him Zeus' sinews, as a gift to his guest, to become strings for a lyra. Because he wanted to be a true ruler of the universe, giving gifts to his guests, being graceful.
Kadmos hid the sinews under a stone, Zeus creeped out of the cave and took them. Kadmos played a melody, more and more silent, about Typhoeus' rulership, he claimed. Zeus got his tendons back and fetched his flashes. Now he again he was the ruler of the universe, for a while [Zeus killed his father Kronos, who ate his children. Kronos ate his children, because he knew that some day one of his children would kill him, because he had castrated his father, Uranos. He castrated his father, Uranos, the sky, because he was laying on Gaia, the earth, all time, leaving no room for their children. One day a child of Zeus will long for the rulership, successfully. Zeus wanted to sleep with Thetis, but Prometheus warned him: the son of Thetis would be stronger than the father, so Zeus forced Thetis to marry a mortal man, Peleus, and give birth to Achilles. And Achilles died, without endangering Zeus' rulership. Once Zeus made Metis pregnant, and it was forsaid that the child of Metis will take the rulership. So Zeus ate Metis, but nine months later, he became strong headache, and Hephaistos split his head, and out came Athene, in full armor. Maybe some day Apollon will be the ruler of the world.]]

[There is a grave on Kreta. Who's grave is it? the grave of Zeus, the people living there respond. The people of Kreta are all liers.]

[Once Demeter had to prostitute herself, with a mortal man. Once Apollon had to prostitute himself, with a mortal man: being paid, being the possession of a mortal. Or was it Death himself? Asklepios reanimated a dead man, therefor Zeus killed him with his flash, therefor Apollon killed the Cyclopes that made the Flashes, therefor Zeus condemned Apollon to serve as a slave for Admetos. And Dionysos promised a man named Prosymnos to serve him, if Prosymnos show him the entrence of Hades. Dionysos visits, and after he returns, he finds Prosymnos dead. He sleeps with the dead by carving a penis out of a branch.]