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too stupid, anti-authoritarian, Christian or about to get married. He finally finds three warriors called Fander, Hogur and
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claim his throne. They change a lot of things in Asgard and become increasingly unpopular. They consolidate their power by stationing jötunn troops in Asgard. Meanwhile, Odin scouts
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294:, and many albums have often featured deeper human issues. The albums are of high quality, and each took one or more years to produce. The first album was released in 1979, the second in 1982, and the thirteenth in 2006. They are very much in the tradition of finely drawn and well plotted
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has allied with the jötnar and brought misery to his country. As Odin and Loki travel to his kingdom to see what is happening, Odin is captured, though Geirröd does not know who he has caught. Loki and Thor return in an attempt to free him.
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in disguise. Odin argues that he has won the wager anyway because those three are the mightiest warriors in Asgard. The story is not based on any particular myth alone, it consists of bits and pieces from the
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featuring Danish comic book characters. Peter Madsen drew the artwork for the
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being the only ones he finally learns to like. (Quark isn't based on any original Norse myths, but is an original creation of Peter Madsen.) The story continues in the next album.
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falls in love for the first time, and Loki gets caught in the middle of the trouble he starts between them all. The jewellery in the title is
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