We often hear how Thor was the “god of Thunder” or Odin was the “god of war.” Did the ancient Norse actually view their gods in this way (as in “god/goddess of _____”) or was this an invention of later scholars to understand the Norse pantheon as similar to the Ancient Greeks’?
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