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(CLICK to Enlarge) This inscription at Peterborough,
Ontario depicts the Thunderer. It
reads from right to left: Nema Thuunor
Molnnir = "Thunor grasps his hammer
Mjolnir." The engraver of this Petroglyph
reduplicated letters in the manner of the Pictish engravers of ogam in
Scotland. The area depicted lies ca.
18 ft. northeast-by-east of the main sun-god figure. Thor, the Scandinavian equivalent of
Anglo-Saxon and German Thunor, is shown wearing a conical helmet in some
Norse art. An example of this is the
bronze figure now in the Reykjavik Museum, Iceland. The short handle of the hammer is also typical of Norse versions,
and is the subject of a special explanatory myth according to which Loki
accidentally broke off a part of the original handle (Fell 1982). |
