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The young Thor has found his way to the Three Fates (Urd, Skuld, Verdani), goddesses of destiny, in the hope they can tell him how to earn Odin's magic hammer. They tell him that he will have to met death first. Returning to the palace, Thor learns from Balder that Storm Giants have seized his sister, the Lady Sif. Swearing to rescue Sif, Thor rides out only to be attacked by Giants near the castle of King Rugga. After opening a chasm with his hammer to capture the Giants, Thor enters the castle and confronts Rugga, who says he has given her to the goddess of death, Hela, in exchange for immortality. Thor then confronts Hela, and offers to give his own life in exchange for Sif. So moved is Hela by his offer of sacrifice that she allows them both leave alive. It be a few days before Thor realized that he had faced death and so had won the Enchanted Hammer.