Reply #4: Wow...

[LadyoftheRabbits]

that's an interesting topic, and one I've sparred with others about. :P :D

Here's my term paper (one of them) from Scandinavian Mythology:

"The Commoner God and the Noble God: Thor and Odin"

With regards to personalities, Thor is possessed of the very human trait of a temper, something anyone can relate to. In ‘Loki’s Quarrel’ Thor is the one who, in the end, is reckoned greatest among the gods (if temporarily) simply because he loses his temper. He could stop Loki in his tirades against the gods, for while Loki insulted even Odin, he eventually stopped when Thor threatened him; “be silent, you evil creature, my mighty hammer Miollnir shall deprive you of speech,” (Poetic Edda 95). The other Aesid had made threats, but only Thor was likely to make good on his words, and Loki knew it. Thor is also simple and evidently perceived as common by his own father. He is, after all, technically a bastard, as Frigg is not his mother. Odin calls Thor a peasant outright in ‘Harbard’s Sayings,’ crying, “who is that peasant who calls over the gulf?” (Poetic Edda 69). It would make sense, seeing as Thor had been traipsing about trying to cross a river like anyone would, by ferry. He is also called “the glorious son of Earth” in ‘The Seeress’ Prophecy’, and thus seems much closer to his mortal admirers than any reference to heaven would make him. Thor is continually linked to the lower-born of society, not only by his actions, but also through the words of his father and a prophetess.