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Neil Gaiman stops by the WSJ Cafe to discuss his new book "Norse Mythology" and how his take on Thor, Odin and Loki is different from Marvel's comic book version. Photo: Getty Images Fort Knox Has ...

Both elements, the prophesied world-shaking event and Thor’s fabled hammer, come from Norse mythology. Thor was said to use Mjolnir both as a devastating throwing weapon and as a sacred tool to ...

But the true essence of the legend lies not in our sanitised representations of golden-haired women drifting regally through the skies on white horses, but in Old Norse mythology of the 13th ...