Fafnir (Marvel Comics) Another Fafnir appeared in the Marvel Universe. He is a Frost Giant. Brother to Fasolt and enemy of Thor, he first appeared in 1980 in "Thor" #294. In "The Ultimates # 13", Thor briefly mentions Fafnir, when he teleports a Chitauri bomb to the wastes of Nastrond, which is home to only Fafnir the Dragon. Fafnir (Marvel Comics) Fafnir is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Fafnir first appears in the title "Thor" #134 (Nov. 1966), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Based on Fafnir of Norse mythology, Fafnir first appeared
Sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology groves and individual trees. After Christianization, trees continue to play a significant role in the folk beliefs of the Germanic peoples. The pagan Germanic peoples referred to holy places by a variety of terms and many of these terms variously referred to stones, groves, and temple structures. From Proto-Germanic or , a masculine noun, developed Old Norse meaning 'temple, idol', Old English 'temple, idol', and Old High German meaning 'holy grove, holy stone'. According to philologist Vladimir Orel, the term was borrowed from the continental Celtic * or, alternately, the same non-Indo-European source as the Celtic source. A more general