Thor’s visit to Jotunheim (Norse myth).pdf

Thor, Loki, and Thialfi travel to the land of giants and encounter the giant Skrymir, who accompanies them but proves difficult to keep up with due to his immense size. They take shelter under Skrymir’s glove and thumb. Later, at the city of Utgard, Thor and his companions are belittled and humiliated in contests of strength against the giants. Thor is unable to empty a seemingly ordinary drinking horn in three tries. It is revealed that all they encountered was an illusion, and they had been bested by trickery rather than actual feats of strength.