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''1. Ulven er Løs'' ("Cry Wolf")<br />''2. Thors Brudefærd'' ("Thor's Wedding")<br />''3. Odins Væddemål'' ("Odin's Wager")<br />''4. Historien om Quark'' ("The Story of Quark")<br />''5. Rejsen Til Udgårdsloke'' ("The Journey to Utgards-Loki")<br />''6. De Gyldne Æbler'' ("The Golden Apples")<br />''7. Ormen i Dybet'' ("The Serpent in the Abyss")<br />''8. Frejas Smykke'' ("Freya's Necklace")<br />''9. Den Store Udfordring'' ("The Big Challenge")<br />''10. Gudernes Gaver'' ("The Gifts for the Gods")<br />''11. Mysteriet om Digtermjøden'' ("The Magic Mead")<br />''12. Gennem Ild og Vand'' ("Through Fire and Water")<br />''13. Balladen om Balder'' ("The Ballad of Balder")<br />''14. Muren'' ("The Wall")<br />''15. Vølvens syner'' ("The Sibyl's Visions")

* [[Abusive Parent]]: Tyr's father.

* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Lots of extra plot threads and characterizations are added to the original myths.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Of a slightly darker variety. Tyr's mother, in 'The Serpent in the Abyss', comments on how "nice" their family life used to be before Tyr ran away from home. Said family life having included regular verbal abuse from Tyr's cranky, many-headed grandmother, as well as physical abuse from his father Hymir.

* [[Companion Cube]]: Thor has a tendency to treat Mjolnir as a pet in addition to a weapon -- most notably in the second album, where it's stolen by Thrym and Thor panics because the hammer "isn't used to being alone." May be slightly [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that Mjolnir is a ''magical'' hammer and on one or two occasions (mostly for brief gags) has shown some semblance of sentience.

** Hoedir might also count; he's not the parodic figure that Heimdall is, but for the majority of the series he's more or less the harmless blind background character that hardly anyone notices. When he gets his [[Day in The Limelight]], though, he thoroughly demonstrates why underestimating the blind guy is ''not'' a good idea.

* [[Day in The Limelight]]: Many, including Tyr's in 'The Serpent in the Abyss' and Heimdall's in 'Freya's Necklace'.

* [[Really Gets Around]]: Freya certainly has this reputation, though it's probably exaggerated. Odin, on the other hand...

* [[Running Gag]]: One that runs through several albums is that of a crowing rooster getting hit by Thor's thrown hammer.

** Same with the two dwarf brothers, Fjalar and Gjalar. Two other dwarf brothers, Eitri and Brokk, act like this in their first appearance in ''Cry Wolf,'' but not in their second appearance in ''Gifts for the Gods,'' where Brokk gets far more screen-time and attention.

* [[Shout Out]]: Several, often to myths that for reasons of characterization and continuity are not part of the comic.

*** Not sure if it was an intentional [[Shout Out]] or not, but you can definitely see some traces of [[The Mighty Thor|Marvel's Thor]] in Tjalfe's dream sequence in the ninth album, where Thor passes Mjolnir on to him and tells him that from now on he is to be the "new Thor." In this sequence, Tjalfe is wearing a winged helmet and a red cape (and of course he's already blonde and beardless), making the parallels noticable.

** Also in the third album, a mortal woman named Thora, who is said to be "the fairest of them all" looks almost exactly like Disney's [[Snow White (Disney)|Snow White]].

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