Three main topics inspired this post: Marvel Comic’s movie The Mighty Thor (2011) and the movie Hammer of the Gods (2009), and how Vikings never wore horns on their helmets, except during moments of prayer.
In particular, Hammer of the Gods stars Home Improvement’s Zachery Ty Bryan, a young Viking named Thor who realizes (through tummyache-inducing dream-visions) that he is in fact the genuine Mighty Thor—God of Thunder. Only he is powerless without his hammer, as we see here in this film clip:
The legendary hammer is, in fact, locked away in a temple on a mountaintop, guarded by a couple of unlikely villains:
1) a tribe of mostly hairless werewolves (mainly covered in black paint to cut back on hair effects, which can be quite costly on movie productions)
2) a traitorous Viking in Thor’s midst (but Thor saw it coming, especially after they waved swords at each other, menacingly, from opposing cliffsides).
Harrowing? Yes! Do we deserve more? Yes, as long as Thor himself is up to it, which I am sure he is.
