Thor fathered Magni and Móði with the giantess Járnsaxa, whose name means Iron Knife. Both sons survive Ragnarök and together inherit Mjölnir.
Odin and the earth giantess Jörð produced Thor, the thunder god and mightiest warrior of the Æsir.
Thor and Sif are married, and their daughter Þrúðr ('strength') is listed among the valkyries in the Prose Edda.
The giantess Gríðr warned Thor of Geirröðr's treachery and lent him her belt of strength, iron gloves, and staff Gríðarvölr for the journey, as told in the Prose Edda.
Þjálfi became Thor's bondservant after cracking the leg bone of one of the god's sacred goats, and thereafter accompanied the thunder god on his greatest adventures — racing against Thought in Útgarða-Loki's hall and fighting the clay giant Mökkurkálfi at Hrungnir's duel.
Thor defends Asgard from giant incursions, serving as the Æsir's chief protector. His giant-slaying journeys to Jötunheimr keep the realm of the gods secure.
Thor stands as the foremost defender of Midgard, journeying again and again to slay the giants who threaten the realm of humanity and holding the line until Ragnarök claims him.
Thor and Jörmungandr are arch-enemies fated to destroy each other. Thor nearly caught the World Serpent during his famous fishing trip with Hymir, and encountered it disguised as Útgarða-Loki's cat. Their final battle at Ragnarök ends both.
Thor killed Gjálp and Greip by bracing Gríðr's staff against the rafters and pushing down, breaking their backs as they tried to lift his chair in Geirröðr's hall.
Thor outwitted the dwarf Alvíss, who sought to marry his daughter Þrúðr, by questioning him through the night until dawn turned him to stone, as told in the Alvíssmál.
Thor slew the giant Geirröðr by catching a lump of molten iron hurled at him and throwing it back through a pillar, killing Geirröðr, as recounted in Snorri's Prose Edda and the Þórsdrápa.
Thor hurled Mjölnir at the stone-headed giant Hrungnir in their single combat on the border of Jötunheimr, shattering his skull — but not before a shard of Hrungnir's whetstone lodged in Thor's own head.
In the Hymiskviða, Thor slew Hymir and his host of giants after they pursued Thor and Týr as they carried away Hymir's great cauldron.
Thor and Jörmungandr destroy each other at Ragnarök — Thor shatters the World Serpent with Mjölnir, then staggers nine paces and falls dead, drowned in the serpent's venom.
Thor slew Þrymr and all the giants in his hall after recovering Mjölnir at the mock wedding feast, as told in the Þrymskviða.
Thor took Þjálfi and Röskva as his servants after Þjálfi cracked the bone of one of Thor's sacred goats. Þjálfi became Thor's swift-footed companion on his journeys, as told in the Prose Edda.
Thor drives his chariot across the sky pulled by the goats Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, who can be slaughtered and eaten each night and resurrected the next morning from their bones.
Bilskirnir is Thor's great hall, described in the Grímnismál as the largest building ever made with 540 rooms, located in his realm of Þrúðheimr.
Þrúðheimr is Thor's realm among the Æsir, where he rules from his hall Bilskirnir, as listed in the Grímnismál.
The Æsir are the principal tribe of Norse gods who dwell in Asgard, including both native members and Vanir hostages received after the Æsir-Vanir War, as catalogued in Gylfaginning.
Thor and Donar are the same thunder deity in Norse and Continental Germanic traditions, both descending from the Proto-Germanic *Þunraz, the divine thunderer who protected the world of gods and men.
Thor retrieved the giant Hymir's enormous brewing cauldron so that Ægir could brew ale for the gods' feast, as told in the Hymiskviða.
Thor carried Aurvandil across the frozen Élivágar in a basket. When Aurvandil's toe froze, Thor broke it off and cast it into the sky as the star Aurvandilstá.
Thor consecrated Baldur's funeral pyre with Mjölnir, hallowing the flames as the gods mourned. During the ceremony, Thor kicked the dwarf Litr into the fire.
When Þrymr stole Mjölnir and demanded Freyja as his bride, Freyja refused so furiously that the halls of the Æsir shook. Thor then disguised himself as Freyja, veiled and adorned, and traveled to Þrymr’s hall to recover his hammer.
Gjálp straddled the river Vímur and swelled its waters to drown Thor as he crossed into Jötunheim, but the thunder god hurled a boulder at her and hauled himself ashore by grasping a rowan branch.
After Thor's duel with Hrungnir, the völva Gróa attempted to sing the lodged whetstone from Thor's skull using galdr magic but stopped when Thor's news of her husband Aurvandil broke her concentration.
Thor and Hymir went fishing together in the Hymiskviða. Thor used an ox head to hook Jörmungandr, but Hymir cut the line in terror before Thor could strike the serpent.
Thor nearly killed Hyrrokkin with Mjölnir after she violently launched Hringhorni at Baldur's funeral, but the other gods restrained him.
Járngreipr, Thor's iron gauntlets, allow him to grip the short-handled Mjölnir. They are one of his three essential possessions described in the Prose Edda.
Thor and Loki frequently journey together in Eddic tales — to Þrymr's hall to recover Mjölnir, to Útgarða-Loki's fortress, and to the giant Geirröðr. Loki's cunning complements Thor's strength across these adventures.
Thor girds himself with Megingjörð before battle, the magical belt that doubles his already prodigious Ás-strength, counted alongside Mjölnir and Járngreipr as his three indispensable possessions.
Mjölnir never misses its mark and always returns to Thor's hand when thrown. He hallowed Baldur's funeral pyre with it, and with it he breaks the skulls of giants from one end of the cosmos to the other.
In the Lokasenna, Loki accuses Sif of taking a lover, and Thor arrives to silence the trickster with threats of Mjölnir, the only force that can end Loki's flyting.
In the Hymiskviða, Týr accompanied Thor to the giant Hymir's hall to retrieve the great cauldron needed for Ægir's feast for the gods.
Útgarða-Loki deceived Thor with illusory contests at his fortress — Thor unknowingly drank the sea, lifted Jörmungandr disguised as a cat, and wrestled Old Age, feats that terrified the giants.
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