Donar

[doh-nahr]

noun German Mythology.

the god of thunder, corresponding to Thor.

Origin of Donar

< Old High German thonar, donar; cognate with Old English Thunor, Old Norse Thōrr; see thunder, Thursday

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Wodan and Donar had gotten the victory over Zeus and Athene.
Bulgaria
Frank Fox
Some attempts have been made to identify him as a kind of Donar or god of thunder.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4
Various
Celtic Taranis has been compared to Donar, but there is no connection, and Taranis was not certainly a thunder-god.
The Religion of the Ancient Celts
J. A. MacCulloch
Donar, same as Thor, the god of thunder among the ancient Teutons.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1
The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
His son Donar shewed himself in thunder and lightning, as he rode with swinging axe on his goat-spanned car.
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times
Alfred Biese

British Dictionary definitions for donar

Donar

noun

the Germanic god of thunder, corresponding to Thor in Norse mythology

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