This is a story of Thor entering the land of Giant to find his missing hammer. Thor wakes up one day and figure out he missing his hammer. He and Loki seek for Freyia by borrowing feather robe to find his hammer. The feather flies away then take them to the land of Thrym, the King of the Thurse. Loki manage to ask Thrym where he hide Thor hammer, but Thrym said: " He wants the Freyia to be his bride in exchange of Thor hammer." Thor tells Freyia to dress up to be Thrym's bride. That makes Freyia angry and rage. They come up with a plan how to retrieve Thor's hammer. Heimdall, the fairest of the gods and one of the prophetic Vanir, foretells them to let Thor dress up as woman by wearing blessing necklace and woman clothes to fool Thrym. Loki will dress as servant girl in order for two of them enter the Land of Giants. They manage to fool the Thrym at the mead hall. The giant sister come and beg for bridal gift which are red golden rings from Thor's arms. Thrym tell his servant to bring out Thor hammer as show off. Thor under woman dress, he laughs then strike down Thrym with no mercy for stealing his hammer. He also killed the giant sister who begging for bridal gift. Finally, his hammer has returned to Thor.
This is a short story of Thor, when he was young. Thor and Loki was friend at this time. Thor was complaining about nothing to do in Asgard. Thor, a young men who wants to test his strength to show how powerful he is. He thinks about strength and somehow his thought link to Giants. He asks Loki about Giant's land. Then they decided they will adventure the Giant land. Before he gets to Giants land, Thor and Loki stop and rest at peasant's hu. Both of them have dinner together with peasant's family. Peasant
son had split open a leg bone to get to the sweet marrow inside, which make Thor upset. The peasant begs for mercy. Thor accepts it but in exchange of the peasant's children, Thailfi and Roskva. They manages to arrive the land of Giants. That is a deep forest. They walk and walk for a long time. When they gets tired they rest at a cave overnight. Though the night, they experience earthquakes, rumblings and groaning. In the next morning, they found a sleeping giant. After a nice conversation, giant join the group. That links to giant behavior annoying thing such as snored loud when he sleep. Thor tries to hit the giant forehead three time with his hammer, but none of the attacks works. The giant warned the group:"There you'll find real giants, not cowardly
shrimps like me, but be warned, you better act respectful or even better turn back
now". Thor ignore giant warning and let him go. The group proceeded on to Utgard, but they couldn't open the door so they sneak in the small gap to get though the door. They compete in eating, racing and drinking match. The group lost to Giants. Thor is upset and challenge about strength match. He tries to lift the giant cat, but somehow he is only manage to lift the cat's paw. Thor was in an uncontrollable rage. Thor even wrestle with a women, but he couldn't move her an inch. The chief of giant said:" it's over, your all earns the pass to return safety to your land". He mention name of Skrymir who met Thor hit on the forehead; and the hole of the valleys, those are not truly valleys but the
marks left by the blows of your hammer. Thor thought you were hitting the giant, but in truth giant
deceived Thor. They also deceived you in the contests. Loki's opponent was really Flame, who
devours anything that stands in his path. Thailfi ran against someone no one can ever
beat, Thought. Thor drinks from the drinking horn, which the other end of the horn was the sea. There is no one who can
drink the ocean dry, but you are the only one to lower it. As for the
cat, it was no cat but the Midgard serpent which encircles the entire world, you managed
to raise one of it's paws which was an even greater feat.
This story influences Thor that "cunning is always defeat strong".
