Marvel Got Thor Wrong — The Real Norse God of Thunder

The Marvel Thor is blonde, clean-shaven, and immortal. The Thor the Vikings actually worshipped was a red-bearded god of farmers who slaughtered and resurrected his own goats, wielded a hammer that came out of the forge with a broken handle, once disguised himself as a bride to win it back — and died at the end of the world, nine steps after killing the serpent that poisoned him. This is the real Norse god of thunder, drawn straight from the Eddas. Sources: the Poetic Edda (Þrymskviða, Hymiskviða, Völuspá) and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda. These are dramatized retellings of traditional Norse myth and folklore. The artwork is AI-assisted illustration created for this channel — not historical artifacts or photographs. Chapters: 0:00 The god you think you know 0:39 A god with a beard of fire 1:18 The goats and the chariot 2:06 The hammer was an accident 3:04 Loki was never his brother 3:47 The day Thor wore a wedding dress 4:56 The serpent at the bottom of the sea 5:45 The death of the thunder god 6:44 Why the real Thor is the better story