"Though Loki ate like hunger, Logi who outmatched him was ardent fire itself.
"Hugi was thought: how could even swift Thialfi keep pace with him?
"The horn you tried to empty reached to the sea; when you come to the shore you will see your draughts have caused the ocean itself to ebb. When we saw you lift one of the cat's paws from the floor, we were all terror-stricken: for the cat was in reality the great Midgard serpent which encompasses the whole earth. Nurse Elli was in fact old age—and never yet has man wrestled with her as have you.
"Therefore, let us never meet again. For in spite of all the marvels of your strength, you can never prevail against me because of my illusions."
Wild with anger, Thor laid hold of Miolnir. But Utgard-Loki had vanished. He would have destroyed
the city, but even that had disappeared, leaving only a smooth and verdant plain.
There was no help for it save to return to their own land; and in truth as the Asa reflected upon what had happened, he was not so ill pleased as before.
Especially did he recall his feat of lifting the Midgard serpent; and the remembrance of his incredible exploit fired him with a resolution to match himself once more against this monstrous world-encircling progeny of Loki.
It was not long thereafter when he determined to wait no more for this. So hastily did he set out that he took neither car, nor goats, nor followers.
In the semblance of a young man he travelled forth, and at dusk came to the dwelling of a giant named Hymir, who lived by the Elivagar water.