I've never heard of anyone who came away from the D'Aulaires desperately wanting to be Thor.
I always wanted to play Thor as a kid, because he was The Hero and because I was a relatively uncomplicated child, but I don't know that we had D'Aulaire's Norse myths; I know we had their Greek ones. (I did always want to be Odysseus, but was rather uncomfortably aware that my brain doesn't actually do the twisty trickster thing.)
(As I got a little older, my affections switched to Heimdall, because the steadfast guardian thing is kind of my jam. Although, trying to double-check my memory, I'm not sure if Wikipedia is just being unhelpful or if I've conflated other castle-guardian stories into my mental image of Heimdall...)
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I always wanted to play Thor as a kid, because he was The Hero and because I was a relatively uncomplicated child, but I don't know that we had D'Aulaire's Norse myths; I know we had their Greek ones. (I did always want to be Odysseus, but was rather uncomfortably aware that my brain doesn't actually do the twisty trickster thing.)
My mental image of Loki is this Doré-ish engraving of him bound, with the serpent and Sigyn and the basin. I do remember trying to mentally engineer a system that would work better than holding up a basin, which probably says a lot about me. ^_^
(As I got a little older, my affections switched to Heimdall, because the steadfast guardian thing is kind of my jam. Although, trying to double-check my memory, I'm not sure if Wikipedia is just being unhelpful or if I've conflated other castle-guardian stories into my mental image of Heimdall...)