Donar the Great

Donar the Great
Information
Air date	April 14, 2019
Written by	Adria Lang
Directed by	Rachel Talalay
Season	Two
Episode	206
Episode guide
previous	"The Ways of the Dead"
next	"Treasure of the Sun"

“	Good evening! Welcome to the Regius Theatre one and all. Tonight, for your viewing pleasure, you know him, you love him, God of Hammers, scourge of Ragnarök! Donar the Great! She sings, she dances, but don't be fooled, guys, she can shoot the balls off a flea at 50 yards. Miss Columbia!	”
–Wednesday introducing Donar and Columbia

"Donar the Great" is the sixth episode of the second season of American Gods and the fourteenth of the overall series. It debuts on April 14, 2019.

Summary

Shadow and Mr. Wednesday seek out Dvalin to repair the Gungnir spear. But before the dwarf is able to etch the runes of war, he requires a powerful artifact in exchange. On the journey, Wednesday tells Shadow the story of Donar the Great.

Plot

TBD

Cast

Main Cast Ricky Whittle as Shadow Moon Ian McShane as Mr. Wednesday Emily Browning as Laura Moon (credit only) Pablo Schreiber as Mad Sweeney (credit only) Crispin Glover as Mr. World Orlando Jones as Mr. Nancy Yetide Badaki as Bilquis (credit only) Bruce Langley as Technical Boy Mousa Kraish as The Jinn (credit only) Omid Abtahi as Salim (credit only) Demore Barnes as Mr. Ibis (credit only)

Guest Starring Peter Stormare as Czernobog Cloris Leachman as Zorya Vechernyaya Kahyun Kim as New Media Devery Jacobs as Samantha Black Crow Sakina Jaffrey as Mama-ji Dean Winters as Mr. Town Co-starring Laura Bell Bundy as Columbia Derek Theler as Donar Jeremy Raymond as Dvalin Clark Middleton as Sindri Eric Peterson as the Caretaker Evan Stern as Carl Douglas Nyback as Manfred

Gallery

• Episode
• BTS

• Donar
• Odin vs. Thor
• Mojolnir breaks Gungnir
• Gungnir
• Wednesday facing off against Donar
• Wednesday kissing Gungnir
• Shadow as Andy Haddock, FBI agent
• Wednesday as Al Grimnir
• Columbia
• Donar on stage
• Wednesday and a nazi
• Donar lifting weights
• Wednesday with Isamba and Gefjon

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• "The Sun and the Moon" costumes from Al Grimnir's cabaret
• Bruce Langley as Telephone Boy and Ian McShane as Al Grimnir
• The makeup of the Caitlin Goguen, actress of "Gefjun"

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Video

American Gods 2x06 Promo "Donar The Great" (HD)

Notes and trivia

• "Donar" is Old High German for "Thor"
• In a video posted on Instagram Bruce Langley revealed that the suit he wears as Telephone Boy used to be a costume worn by Eric Peterson, the actor playing the Caretaker.