all-rending

Updated: May 14, 2025

The thunder was his wrath: the gathering of the black clouds is the drawing down of Thor's angry brows; the fire-bolt bursting out of Heaven is the all-rending Hammer flung from the hand of Thor: he urges his loud chariot over the mountain-tops, that is the peal; wrathful he "blows in his red beard," that is the rustling storm-blast before the thunder begins.

Thomas Carlyle - On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History