- —Volla[12]
A Norn seer and the Asgardian goddess of prophecy, Volla died after making known her prophecies of Ragnarok, going to Hel where she became Hela's servant. Those who are brave and powerful enough to journey into the realm of the dead could still obtain prophecies from Volla.
History
Volla was born in Asgard.[1] She was a member of the race of Norns,[15][14] but was also considered an Asgardian.[18][19] In ancient times, Asgard monarch Odin granted Volla the power of prophecy.[12] Thus becoming a prophetess,[15][14][18][19] Volla also was named goddess of prophecy.[15][14][18] Volla was, in her old age,[14][15] possibly the only Norn whom Odin trusted.[15] Volla had already narrated at least part of his prophecies (including the fact that Loki would be chained until the end of time) when Thor and Loki were just children.[20] Many Asgardians were intimidated by Volla's words.[6] Volla had a sister, Erda,[5][21] who was also a prophetess and became an Earth goddess.[21]
Ragnarok Prophecies[]
Circa 1000 AD, Odin built the huge weapon Odinsword from the cursed Rhinegold[22] as a last resort weapon against the Celestials.[23][22] Knowing that the Oversword inherited the Rhinegold curse threatening the destruction of Asgard, Odin planned to keep the Oversword sheathed as much time as possible,[22] telling the Asgardians that unsheathing it could be fatal to all worlds. When a crack appeared on the edge of the sword, Odin, worried, sent his sons Thor and Loki on a quest to find out the cause.[22][24][25] Meanwhile, Odin summoned the prophetess Volla, who told him that she could show him visions of Ragnarok, the destruction of Asgard. [12] Odin then brought Thor and Loki back to hear the prophecy from Asgard,[26] along with many other Asgardians[12][6] (including Balder and the Warriors Three),[6] from the lips of Volla,[12] making Ragnarok prophecies made public.[1] The Asgardians were apparently unaware that three other Norns, Urd, Skuld, and Verdandi watched the meeting with interest.[6]
Using her boiling bowl as a tool, Volla's powers manipulated the mists generated to show the future.[12][6] She predicted the extinguishing of the stars[12] and an extreme,[8] endless winter as her first prophecy.[6] Intimidated, the Asgardians would turn against each other, with brother killing brother[12][6][27][8] motivated by a nameless terror[12] caused by the imminent Ragnarok.[6] Some surviving Asgardians[12] would seek Loki's leadership,[6] joining the forces of evil formed by enemies of Asgard which would also include Demons, Giants,[6] Trolls,[27][6] and the hordes coming from Hel,[27] as well as the immense Midgard serpent Jormungand in the vanguard,[28] as he would have emerged from the seas.[12][29] Loki interrupted the prophecy at that moment, pulling at the old woman's toga and accusing her of defaming him; he threatened to kill Volla lest she admitted to lying, but Volla only insisted that the mists could not lie. Thor challenged Loki, demanding that he release the prophetess so that she could continue, and Odin broke up the dispute, sending each of his sons back to the audience.[6]
Volla continued, explaining that Loki's army would attack Asgard across the Rainbow Bridge.[6] Always loyal to Asgard,[12] Heimdall, guardian of Bifrost, would break the bridge to prevent the enemy from entering,[6] would then sound the alarm and would die in the attack.[12][6] Hearing the signal, Odin would know that the time of the prophecy had arrived,[6] and would lead the defense against the enemy[12][6] in a battle in which Asgard will burn.[12][6][27] Loki, who aspired to be supreme after the battle, would rejoice seeing his enemies dying,[6] and then would he fight Thor[12][6] while still denying that Volla's prophecies were true.[6] Then, when the kingdom had become a sea of flames, Jormungand, sworn enemy of Thor, would join the battle.[6][27] Loki would then flee, terrified by his own progeny, while Thor and his allies fighted Jormungand. Loki would try to contribute to the fight using ranged weapons, but the Serpent would destroy those. Thor would manage to kill the Serpent[6] with his hammer, but he would then, after taking nine steps back, die from the poison the Serpent had injected into him.[27][29] and then the entire world would be consumed[12] and the survivors would know that the end has come. Into that ineffable silence and desolation[6] Surtur would come[12][6] from the depths.[6] A destructive god who has awaited the moment of Ragnarok since the beginning of time,[6] Surtur however would be unable to survive when everything that exists has perished and, in an act of blind rage,[12] would burn all that remained, destroying existence. Yet a charred ember, cinder of the fabric of reality, would survive, and from it which new life would emerge and, eventually, new worlds, new men, and new Asgardians,[12][6] though only after the many eons needed to cool him down. Volla concluded that everything living will die, but the dead will live.[6]
Thus discovering many details of the impending Ragnarok,[19][23][22] Odin knew that Loki would betray Asgard and be the spark of disaster.[12] Although Loki tried to downplay Volla's words before the public recovered their speech,[28] Odin had Loki imprisoned,[30][22] sending him to the Well of Eternal Sleep.[30] Odin also initiated several plans to prevent or delay Ragnarok,[23] including a moment, some time later, when Volla returned to relate his prophecies to the Asgardians, but then Odin chose not to imprison Loki for a crime that Loki was yet to commit. On that occasion, Odin decided that the world needed this "fiery cleansing" and that the worthy would be resurrected.[6]
Eventually, his prophecies were compiled into a book that was made available to Odin's allies, including Zeus.[20] The mortals of Midgard also had access to a written version of the Ragnarok prophecies. Ragnarok.[31]
Other Prophecy[]
Not long after, Volla had a new vision in which she saw how Thor would die if he remained among the gods for the following few years. Volla correctly interpreted that, if Thor died before Ragnarok, the prophecy of Ragnarok would be impossible to fulfill, and therefore the Asgardians would not be reborn after Ragnarok. Volla requested a new audience with Odin to tell him about this discovery.[13] Especially concerned about the seemingly inevitable death of his son, Odin desperately sought a way to save him,[19] so this prophecy infuriated him. Odin broke Volla's bowl with her spear Gungnir, insulted the old woman and accused her of treason. She defended herself by claiming that she was but a mere messenger, and Odin apologized to Volla, asking if there was any way to prevent this event. Volla said that Thor would have to leave Asgard for that; and that the fatal moment would have passed when Mjolnir throb with a gleaming glow. Odin dismissed Volla, asking him not to speak of this to anyone, and then began his plan to send Thor to Earth as Donald Blake, although it would be many years before Odin revealed his secret reasons to Thor.[13]
Death and Post-Mortem[]
Not long after speaking the prophecies of Ragnarok,[7] Volla died in Asgard,[1] and her spirit[32] came to inhabit the shadowy land[15] of the dead in Hel.[19][14] Volla is said to have lost her mind at some point, shortly before or after she died.[3] Like the other spirits in Hel,[32] Volla submitted to the will of Hel's Queen Hela[8] and became her close advisor[14] whom Hela consulted because Volla not only maintained her precognitive powers,[32] but had extended them.[8] Technically, anyone who could contact Volla's ghost could also ask her for advice,[1][14] and she always answered the truth,[14] but few had the courage to travel to the underworld to do so.[1]
Odin, like Hela and Loki, knew all of Volla's prophecies,[33] which included, in addition to Heimdall's death in the Bifrost, the fight between Thor and Loki in which Loki would end up dying, and the fact that the Ragnarok would begin only when Balder died, after a mortal who had already set foot on Asgard had dreams of Asgardian events.[8] Volla's prophecies became precise enough to include the specific words that Thor and Loki would exchange in their final combat.[33] Odin knew that Hela and Loki would try to make these prophecies true.[33] In order to delay the real Ragnarok,[34] Odin made several of the prophecies come true, without causing the end of Asgard, resorting to illusions to unbalance his enemies.[33]
As part of Hela's plan,[3][8] Volla divinely inspired mortal reporter Harris Hobbs, who had been in Asgard, to have a dream of an ancient confrontation between Thor and the Midgard Serpent in which Thor attempted to challenge the prophecy. This motivated Hobbs to return to Asgard with a crew and report the end of the universe;[3] Hobbs had studied the prophecies of Ragnarok and knew what he expected to see.[31] As part From his ruse, Odin generated multiple illusions, including one in which he sacrificed his eye to Mimir, who also had the gift of prophecy, to obtain information that could help him stop Ragnarok; but Mimir only told him that Odin must travel to Hela and consulted Volla's wraith there.[34] Riding the steed Sleipnir, Odin traveled to Hel to do so[7][35][36] and once in Hel, he summoned Volla's wraith with his powers and asked for information to delay Ragnarok. In legless, spectral form, the hooded figure representing Volla's spirit reminded Odin that he himself had decreed the need for Ragnarok.[7] Volla then told Odin that[7][34][35][36] Balder's apparent[35][36] death would mark the beginning of the twilight of the gods,[7][34][35][36][37] after which the figure vanished in terror because Hela was arriving. Hela told Odin that she had heard Volla's words, and mockingly added that she would prepare to receive Balder into her kingdom.[7] Therefore, Odin returned to Asgard, taking with him the god Hoder who had been stranded and who was destined to kill Balder shortly after. Upon arrival, Odin started a debate among the Asgardians about the veracity of the ghost's prophecies: Although Balder doubted that the ghost was accurate, Thor and Hogun were reluctant to ignore her, convincing Odin to lend an ear to her; but Loki refused to accept punishment for a crime that had not even happened.[7]
Using illusions, Odin prepared a way for the prophecies to apparently come true with false Asgardians.[33] Balder, as a game and demonstration of his invulnerability, allowed the other gods to attack him with projectiles, and then[7] Loki manipulated blind Hoder to shoot and kill Balder[7][37] with a mistletoe arrow, Balder's only vulnerability[7] (All of these people were all fake).[33] When Balder died, Hela, the Midgard Serpent and the Fenris Wolf rose. Odin had the Asgardians prepare for their battle, explaining how fate controlled them. He had Loki put on trial,[31] and froze Balder to keep him alive, but Hobbs' cameraman Roger "Red" Norvell was manipulated into wearing Thor's Belt of Strength, defeated Thor and kidnapped beautiful Asgardian goddess Sif.[38] During the trial for Balder's deicide, Loki admitted his guilt and the involvement of Volla, under Hela's control, and then Loki was convicted and arrested. Hela's forces invaded Asgard, even before Balder's death,[8] and Loki broke free, confronting Thor. Following Odin's plan, the prophecies were tricked because Norvell, who had become Thor of sorts, sacrificed his life against the Midgard Serpent. The original Thor then defeated the Serpent without dying, and Hela ordered a retreat, concluding that it was not the day of the Twilight of the Gods. Odin then explained to Thor how he had brought about the prophecies of Volla, without causing the end of Asgard.[33]
Hela's Servant[]
Volla continued to serve Hela. Knowing that Hela wished for the death of Thor[4] and of Thor's allies,[9] Volla kept her eye on them using the Vapors of Time and, when there was a chance that Thor would die[4] in combat against the Destroyer,[11] Volla notified Hela to monitor the situation.[4] Defeated by the Destroyer, Thor entered Hel and was greeted by Volla; Hela then dismissed Volla. However, they were interrupted by a mysterious figure who called himself Marnot; Volla urged Marnot to leave Hel, but Marnot used his powers to make Volla's mouth vanish. Marnot demanded that Thor return to Earth, citing a technicality in Hela's conditions, and Hela was unable to prevent him.[11] Volla's mouth was eventually restored.[9]
Not long after that, Volla pointed out to Hela that Thor's ally, Hogun, was dying. Seeing Hogun dying on Midgard through Volla's Golden Smoke of Revelation, Hela teleported herself to Midgard next to Hogun,[9] but Hogun survived.[39]
Dark Elf Malekith used the Casket of Ancient Winters to bring about incomparable snowy winters that covered the most unlikely places, including Hel. Volla expressed her surprise at the unprecedented situation, but Hela silenced her, convinced that Thor would defeat Malekith - as he did.[40]
Hela had Volla accompany her to a rarely visited region of Hel where the spirit of the Executioner, whom Hela intended to send to Midgard as part of a plan to take over Thor's osul, was. Volla went with Hela, although she showed her fear.[41]
Shortly after, after Odin's apparent death, Thor inherited the Odinforce, which made him much more powerful. Hela shared with Volla her bold plan to use the Executioner against Thor again before Thor could control his new gift more efficiently. Volla warned Hela that her idea was especially risky, but Hela decided to ignore her. Finally, after confronting the Executioner, Thor entered Hel to ask Hela if Odin had really died, and in the process accused her of his troubles. Volla, frightened, advised Hela to beg for mercy because Thor could easily destroy her. With his curiosity satisfied, Thor chose to withdraw from Hel, leaving Volla and Hela unscathed.[10]Personality
Volla was a very accurate seer, compelled to speak the truth to whoever asked for her advice.[14][1] Volla faithfully served Odin, ruler of Asgard,[12][6][13] and she was perhaps she is the only member of the Norn race that Odin trusted.[15] Volla took pride in the quality of her work as a prophetess,[11] and even allowed herself to speak to Odin with a familiarity that few would dare to have;[7] however, she did dare not to discuss the orders that Odin gave her, and when he asked for confidentiality, she assured him that she was no gossip.[13] Marnot, who would later be revealed like Odin's raven, compared Volla to his own ninth wife Nag for her incessant chattering.[11]
The Asgardians in general had a fearful respect for the prophecies of Volla, whose eschatology made many shiver.[6] Thor and Loki understood the importance of the prophecies,[12] and Loki recognized that the prophecies of Volla were the only thing more powerful that the decrees of Odin,[3] but later Loki came to deny them when he was accused of causing, in the future, the destruction of Asgard.[6] The image of Loki conjured by Odin to cheat Ragnarok forgot the details of the prophecies of Volla during Ragnarok itself.[33]
Volla's powers and advice remained at the disposal of the Asgardians even after her death if someone went to look for her in Hel.[1] Reluctantly,[10] Volla's wraith agreed to be an advisor to Hela, whom she would never have obeyed in life.[8] Volla not only told her prophecies to Hela,[11] but also accompanied her in her plans[41] and gave her advice;[10] Hela however criticized Volla for her "prattling,"[11][40][41] but recognized Volla's use.[10] Few were brave enough to enter Hel and speak to Volla directly, except perhaps Odin himself.[7]Attributes
Powers
- Clairvoyance: Using the Golden Smoke of Revelation, Volla could see what was happening in distant places and show it to other people, as well as being able to focus the image on events of your specific interest. Volla only used this power after she was dead; It is not clear if she had it in life.[9]
- Ghost: After her death, Volla became a wraith[7] who could occasionally manifest physical form.[2] Having already been weak when she was alive,[2] the wraith form Volla hardly had any physical strength whatsoever.[1] Since her death, Volla was obliged to obey any orders from Hela, goddess of the underworld, even against her will,[8] but she was also obliged to tell the truth to anyone sufficiently brave to visit her in Hel for advice.[14][1] As a ghost, Volla seemed to need his bowl to conjure prophecies and images between vapors,[13] but he could also make images appear just by moving his hands.[7]
- Precognition: Volla had precognitive powers[12][1] at a very high level[2] that had been granted to her by Odin in yonder times.[12] Volla claimed that prophecies came to her in dreams without her controlling the future,[13] and she used a container of liquid, smoking on fire and which she stirred, to command the so-called Vapors of Time,[12][6] where she she could see the details of the future.[4] She was unable to lie when mentioning her prophecies,[28][14] just as the Vapors could not lie.[6] Volla's powers allowed her to see alternative futures,[1] as she demonstrated by giving Odin the confidential prophecy that Thor might die before Ragnarok, thus spoiling the restoration of the universe; yet that future that she had predicted was avoided.[13] Volla's already considerable precognitive powers increased after his death.[8]
Weaknesses
Volla was a weak, slow-moving person,[2] and a terrible fighter, unable to defend herself against Asgardian warriors.[6] She was also not protected against magic; Marnot was able to use a spell to make Volla's mouth disappear by snapping her fingers (Volla's face was later restored).[11]
After she died, Volla was compelled to obey Hela's commands, even though she did not wish to.[8] In her spectral state, Volla knew that she could still be destroyed and she feared for her very existence.[10]Paraphernalia
Equipment
Volla used a bowl-like container, smaller than a cauldron, which she boiled on the ground over a campfire to narrate her prophecies. She stirred the undetermined liquid inside with a tall raw branch, to generate the Vapors of Time that allowed her to narrate the future.[6] Odin destroyed the original bowl, but apparently it could be replaced.[13]
Volla wore only a hooded toga and sandals.[13]Notes
- Volla is based on Volla (Fulla in Old Norse), a deity from Germanic mythology. The Norse goddess, from what we know of her few appearances, was not a prophetess: In the 9th-century Merseburg incantations, Volla and her sister Friia are among the goddesses who sing charms in an attempt to cure Balder's foal. In the 13th-century Poetic Edda, Fulla is Frigg's servant maid sent to give King Geirröd a message at Frigg's request. Lastly, in the 13th-century Prose Edda, Fulla is also Frigg's servant, a virgin on whom Frigg confides, described in relation with several gold items including a finger-ring Baldr gifts to her from Hel. She is also described as one the ásynjur - the Aesir, or main gods in the Norse pantheon.
- The Marvel comics continuity presents several problems regarding Volla's prophecies about Ragnarok. First, Volla first spoke the prophecies several times, firstly in Thor #127 and then in Thor #200; these appear to be two retellings of the same moment, but with differences, in that Volla, being alive, relates her prophecies to the Asgardians, including adult Thor and Loki. However, in Thor Annual #8, an adventure from Thor and Loki's youth is narrated in which young Thor remembers how Volla's prophecies speak of Loki being chained forever. In a different way, when Odin tries to fulfill the prophecies without Asgard being destroyed, in Thor #274, it is said that he sacrificed his eye to Mimir in exchange for the wisdom to prevent Ragnarok, Mimir says that Odin must consult Volla in Hel (Per Thor #274, Volla died soon after speaking the prophecies of Ragnarok, thus at best soon after Thor #200, even though she also made a later prophecy while still alive in Mighty Thor #479), and when Volla speaks of Ragnarok, she reminds Odin of a decree that Odin had said in Thor #200. In addition to this, there are certain significant differences:
- In Thor #127, Volla's prophecy says that loyal Asgardians will destroy the Bifrost Bridge, and then Heimdall will raise the alarm and fall. In Thor #200, Volla predicts that Heimdall will destroy Bifrost, whereupon he will raise the alarm and fall.
- The prophecy of the battle is described only in broad strokes in Thor #127, saying that Odin will lead the charge; Thor will fight Loki in a battle in which he will consume the world; and then the Midgard Serpent will emerge as the final enemy. In Thor #200 however it is said how the Midgard Serpent will appear during the battle between Thor and Loki; and that Asgard will be destroyed during the fight between Thor and the Serpent (not between Thor and Loki). It is also added that the final enemy that will destroy everything, apparently including the world, will be Surtur and not the Serpent.
- The moment when Odin consults Volla in Hel in Thor #274, and which is retold in Thor: Asgard's Avenger #1 (Mimir's profile), mentions that Odin sacrificed his eye to Mimir in exchange for wisdom and apparently consulted Volla soon after, after which the story continues immediately with Ragnarok. It is possible to interpret this as Odin consulting Volla's ghost to obtain more information about Ragnarok (as Balder's death triggers it), since Volla's prophetic powers grew after his death. However, Odin had been one-eyed for quite some time. During this story, Harris Hobbs mentioned that the Asgardians did not behave like people, but rather as if they were playing a predestined role, which could be related to the explanation of this event being not a reality, but a performance.
- When Volla's ghost tells Hela that Balder will die, Hela concludes that Balder will enter Hel.[7] However, Hel is reserved for the cowards and those who do not deserve a place in Valhalla,[42] and it is highly doubtful that Balder meets these requirements.
- Volla's profile in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 2) #1 failed to mention Erda being her sister, as said in Thor #295. In the data corrections in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 3) #1, fan Jon Douglas West (from Glendora, California)'s submission to correct this detail was accepted.
Trivia
- Although Volla's ghost has blank eyes, with no pupil or perceptible iris,[4][11][9][10] she was not blind and could see her surroundings perfectly, as demonstrated when the winter snows covered Hel and she could hardly believe her eyes.[40]
- When appearing to Odin as a ghost, Volla's word balloons had wrinkled borders, suggesting an unusual voice, and her shape was spectral, lacking legs.[8] Her voice and body were normal soon afterward when serving as Hela's advisor.[4][11][10]
See Also
- 13 appearance(s) of Volla (Earth-616)
- 3 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Volla (Earth-616)
- 5 mention(s) of Volla (Earth-616)
- 3 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Volla (Earth-616)
- 4 image(s) of Volla (Earth-616)
Links and References
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 2) #1 ; Asgardians' profile
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Gamer's Handbook of the Marvel Universe #1 ; Asgardians' profile
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Thor #273
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Thor (Vol. 2) #1
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Thor #295
- ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 6.15 6.16 6.17 6.18 6.19 6.20 6.21 6.22 6.23 6.24 6.25 6.26 6.27 6.28 6.29 6.30 6.31 6.32 6.33 6.34 6.35 6.36 6.37 Thor #200
- ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 Thor #274
- ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.13 Thor #277
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 Thor (Vol. 2) #29
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 Thor (Vol. 2) #43
- ↑ 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 Thor (Vol. 2) #2
- ↑ 12.00 12.01 12.02 12.03 12.04 12.05 12.06 12.07 12.08 12.09 12.10 12.11 12.12 12.13 12.14 12.15 12.16 12.17 12.18 12.19 12.20 12.21 12.22 12.23 12.24 12.25 12.26 12.27 Thor #127
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 13.8 13.9 Mighty Thor #479
- ↑ 14.00 14.01 14.02 14.03 14.04 14.05 14.06 14.07 14.08 14.09 14.10 14.11 14.12 Thor: The Legend #1 ; Volla's profile
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 Thor #303
- ↑ Gamer's Handbook of the Marvel Universe #1 ; Volla's profile
- ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #1 ; Asgardians' entry
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #1 ; Asgardians' profile
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #14 ; Asgardians' profile
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Thor Annual #8
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Thor: Asgard's Avenger #1 ; Asgardians (in the appendix)
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 22.5 Thor: Asgard's Avenger #1 ; Oversword's profile
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #8 ; Odin's profile
- ↑ Journey Into Mystery #117
- ↑ Journey Into Mystery #119
- ↑ Thor #126
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 27.4 27.5 Gamer's Handbook of the Marvel Universe #1 ; Midgard Serpent's profile
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 Thor #128
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z Update #1 ; Midgard Serpent's profile
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 Thor #129
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 Thor #275
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #14 ; Hela's profile
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 33.3 33.4 33.5 33.6 33.7 Thor #278
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 34.3 Thor: Asgard's Avenger #1 ; Mimir's profile
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 Marvel Pets Handbook #1 ; Sleipnir's profile
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 36.2 36.3 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #11 ; Sleipnir's profile
- ↑ 37.0 37.1 Thor #283
- ↑ Thor #276
- ↑ Thor (Vol. 2) #30
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 40.2 Thor (Vol. 2) #32
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 41.2 Thor (Vol. 2) #35
- ↑ New Mutants Special Edition #1
- ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 2) #1