That said, the hammer's similar to Mjölnir. (Destiny)

by Funkmon , Thursday, October 08, 2015, 15:36 (3574 days ago) @ slycrel
edited by Funkmon, Thursday, October 08, 2015, 15:44

Ef hann yrpi honum til, þá myndi hann aldri missa ok aldri fljúga svá langt, at eigi myndi hann sækja heim hönd, ok ef þat vildi, þá var hann svá lítill, at hafa mátti serk sér

"If he threw him, he would never miss and never fly so far he would not return to his hand, and if he willed it, he was so little he could have it in his shirt."

Sounds like our hammer.

I wonder if Mjölnir is powerful in itself, and Thor was the lame one. In the famous story about it, it says he has to wear gloves to use it, and it was stolen from him fairly easily. If that were the case, maybe it's not the fact that a god is using it that imbues it with power, and if any god had it, like Sól, it could use HER element, basically like we see in the game.

So, even if we're not Thor, we can still use the hammer made for him.

Boring etymology fact: while it's widely known that Thursday means Thor's day, there are a few other things I like to bring up in dinner parties to make sure people leave me alone. In English he was Þunor, not Þor. Sound familiar? Later there was a bout of excrescence (similar to what makes mince sound like mints in some speakers) and we got thunder from Þunor. The two pronunciations existed together from aroudn 1300 until 1500, when the thunner one died out. The same thing happened to it in Dutch, giving them dunder (or donder, now). What goes along with dunder? Blixem (or in German, Blitzen). Now to bring it around. Thursday is Thor's day. Thursday in German is Donnerstag. They're the same word.

In early English, Thursday was Ðunresdæg. The Ð is an eth, which is like the th in "that" and æ is an ash, which sounds like the a in father. G and Y were practically the same in Old English, and d was pronounced a little harder than it is today, giving it a t sound. Basically, if you said the Old English word for Thursday in Germany today, people would look at you funny but know what you meant.