The second, the Kvinneby amulet, invokes protection by both Thor and his hammer. The first, the Canterbury Charm from Canterbury, England, calls upon Thor to heal a wound by banishing a thurs. Two objects with runic inscriptions invoking Thor date from the 11th century, one from England and one from Sweden. Earlier in the same work, Adam relays that in 1030 an English preacher, Wulfred, was lynched by assembled Germanic pagans for 'profaning' a representation of Thor.

In Thor's case, he continues, these sacrifices were done when plague or famine threatened. Adam details that the people of Uppsala had appointed priests to each of the gods, and that the priests were to offer up sacrifices. Adam details that 'Thor, they reckon, rules the sky he governs thunder and lightning, winds and storms, fine weather and fertility' and that 'Thor, with his mace, looks like Jupiter'. In the 11th century, chronicler Adam of Bremen records in his Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum that a statue of Thor, who Adam describes as 'mightiest', sits in the Temple at Uppsala in the center of a triple throne (flanked by Woden and 'Fricco') located in Gamla Uppsala, Sweden.