Thor frequently battled frost and fire giants to protect Asgard and Midgard.
Vikings believed in Asgard, the one beyond the ice.
And yearly enough, the underground continent is called Agartha across many cultures, which is quite close to Asgard, by the way.
The Oahspe Thor’s leadership and divine authority echo the Norse Thor’s role as a heroic defender of Asgard and Midgard.
Æsir: This group includes the primary gods of Asgard, such as Odin, Thor, and Frigg.
Njörðr, Freyr, and Freyja were among those who came to live with the Æsir in Asgard after the truce.
Thor: God of thunder, protector of humanity and Asgard.
Residence: The Æsir live in Asgard, one of the Nine Worlds connected by the world tree, Yggdrasil.
The racial memory of Atlantis is found in the legends of the Garden of Eden of the Bible, the Garden of the Hesperides of the Greeks, the Asgard of the Scandinavians, the Tir n'Og of the Celts and in all the legends of a wonderful, mysterious land in which dwelt gods or godlike mortals.
In the same way the escape of some of the Atlanteans over a narrow land bridge, which connected Atlantis with what is now Brittany, survives in the legends of the Rainbow Bridge Perilous with the razor edge which the Scandinavians believed was the only road to Asgard, the dwelling place of the gods, in the famous Hell's Causway of the religious books of the Middle Ages and in similar legends of the Hindoos, the Mayans and the Turanians.
He dwelt with the twelve Æsir, or gods, upon Asgard, the Norse Olympus, which arose out of Midgard, a land half-way between the regions of frost and fire (to wit, in a temperate climate).
The Scandinavians believed in the twelve gods, the Aesir, who dwelt on Asgard, the Norse Olympus.
Diligent investigation may yet reveal that the number of a modern jury, twelve, is a survival of the ancient council of Asgard.
"It was the sacred Asgard of the Scandinavians, springing from the centre of a fruitful land, which was watered by four primeval rivers of milk, severally flowing in the direction of the cardinal points, 'the abode of happiness, and the height of bliss.' It is the Tien-Chan, 'the celestial mountain-land, .
After that I say how I use Donnelly’s Asgard and Atlantis reading as labeled interpretation, not as archaeology.
He dwelt with the twelve Æsir, or gods, upon Asgard, the Norse Olympus, which arose out of Midgard, a land half-way between the regions of frost and fire (to wit, in a temperate climate).
He places Odin with the twelve Æsir on Asgard, the Norse home of the gods.
Midgard, in Donnelly’s wording, is the land halfway between frost and fire, a temperate middle world from which Asgard arises.
Donnelly’s Asgard reading is the third box.
Digs do not prove Asgard was a city on a lost Atlantic land.
Asgard as Atlantis stays Donnelly’s claim.
Was Asgard Atlantis?Donnelly thought it probably was.
I use those hooks as source-critical research, not as proof that Votan was Odin or that Asgard has been dug at Atlantis.
Where was Atlantis: location hypotheses for the Asgard-as-Atlantis interpretation, kept as interpretation.
The trickster god Loki was coerced by Thjazi to lure Idunn out of Asgard (the realm of the gods) and into a forest, where Thjazi, in the form of an eagle, kidnapped her.
He borrowed Freyja's falcon cloak, transformed into a falcon, found Idunn, and flew her back to Asgard, evading Thjazi who pursued them.
Hrungnir loses the race and ends up in Asgard, the realm of the gods, where he becomes drunk and abusive.
Atlantis, a name recorded in various permutations by hundreds of cultures, has been called: Antilla, Amenti, Arallu, Attala, Atvantika, Aztlan, Azatlan, Atlantia, Atli, Asgard, Avalon, Arcadia, Arktos, Agartha, Shangri-la, Hyperborea, Tula, Rutas, Thule, Hesperides, Hy-Brasil, to mention a few.