Post date: Jun 17, 2016 11:4:26 PM
“Thor in many things is ſimilar to Hercules. He fought with the ſerpent of Midgard—Hercules with the Hydra : he overcame the Giants—ſo did Hercules. The armour of Thor and Hercules bear alſo ſome reſemblance. The former carried a Mallet, wore a girdle of courage, and defended his hands with gauntlets—Hercules had his Club, his Lion’s ſkin, and his Cæſti. Thor alſo bears ſome analogy to the Grecian Jupiter who overthrew the Giants with his thunder as Thor did with his mallet.”
—A. S. Cottle, Icelandic Poetry, or The Edda of Saemund Tranſlated into Engliſh Verſe, Bristol: N. Biggs for Joſeph Cottle, 1797, xxiv–xxv.