Editing Thor (section)

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[[File:Bonifacius by Emil Doepler.jpg|thumb|[[Boniface]] bears his crucifix after felling Thor's Oak in ''Bonifacius'' (1905) by [[Emil Doepler]]]]
The first recorded instance of the name of the god appears upon the [[Nordendorf fibulae]], a piece of jewelry created during the [[Migration Period]] and found in [[Bavaria]]. The item bears an [[Elder Futhark]] inscribed with the name {{lang|goh|Þonar}} (i.e. {{lang|goh|Donar}}), the southern Germanic form of Thor's name.<ref name="SIMEK235-236">Simek (2007:235–236).</ref>

Around the second half of the 8th century, Old English texts mention {{lang|ang|Thunor}} ({{lang|ang|Þunor}}), which likely refers to a [[Anglo-Saxon paganism|Saxon]] version of the god. In relation, {{lang|ang|Thunor}} is sometimes used in Old English texts to gloss ''Jupiter'', the god may be referenced in the poem ''[[Solomon and Saturn]]'', where the thunder strikes the devil with a "fiery axe", and the Old English expression {{lang|ang|þunorrād}} ("thunder ride") may refer to the god's thunderous, goat-led chariot.<ref name="TURVILLE99">Turville-Petre (1964:99)</ref><ref name="THUNOR">See North (1998:238–241) for {{lang|ang|þunnorad}} and tales regarding {{lang|ang|Thunor}}.</ref>

A 9th-century AD codex from [[Mainz]], Germany, known as the ''[[Old Saxon Baptismal Vow]]'', records the name of three Old Saxon gods, {{lang|osx|UUôden}} (Old Saxon "[[Wodan]]"){{Clarify|reason=Wōdan and UUôden are just two spellings for the same name. We should remove one and let the Odin main page go into more detail.|date=July 2021}}, {{lang|osx|[[Seaxnēat|Saxnôte]]}}, and {{lang|osx|Thunaer}}, by way of their renunciation as demons in a formula to be repeated by Germanic pagans formally [[christianization of the Germanic peoples|converting to Christianity]].<ref name="SIMEK276">Simek (2007:276).</ref>

According to a near-contemporary account, the Christian missionary [[Saint Boniface]] felled an [[oak tree]] dedicated to "Jove" in the 8th century, the [[Donar's Oak]] in the region of [[Hesse]], [[Germany]].<ref name="SIMEK238">Simek (2007:238) and Robinson (1916:63).</ref>

The [[Kentish royal legend]], probably 11th-century, contains the story of a villainous reeve of [[Ecgberht of Kent]] called Thunor, who is swallowed up by the earth at a place from then on known as {{lang|ang|þunores hlæwe}} (Old English 'Thunor's mound'). [[Gabriel Turville-Petre]] saw this as an invented origin for the placename demonstrating loss of memory that Thunor had been a god's name.<ref>Turville-Petre (1964:99–100); variant texts in mss. [[Stowe 944]], Cotton Caligula A. xiv, London, Lambeth Palace 427.</ref>

[[File:Olaus Magnus - On the three Main Gods of the Geats.jpg|thumb|16th-century depiction of Norse gods from [[Olaus Magnus]]'s ''[[A Description of the Northern Peoples]]''; from left to right, [[Frigg]], Thor and Odin]]