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- "On the edge of the world sea," he said, "lives the giant king Hymir. He owns a cauldron three miles deep. It's the biggest cauldron there has ever been."
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- Hymir looked at Tyr and said bitterly, "If you want it, stepson, then take it. It's huge and heavy. It takes over a dozen giants to lift it. Do you think you are strong enough?"
- Tyr walked over to the cauldron. He tried to lift it once, twice, but it was too heavy even for him. He looked at Thor. Thor shrugged, grasped the cauldron by the rim, and flipped it so he was inside it and the handles clattered at his feet.
- Then the cauldron began to move, with Thor inside. It headed towards the door, while all around the hall many-headed giants stared, open-mouthed.
- Hymir no longer wept. Tyr glanced up at him. "Thank you cor the cauldron," he said. And then, keeping the moving cauldron between himself and Hymir, Tyr edged out of the room.
- Thor and Tyr left the castle together, untethered Thor's goats, and climbed into Thor's chariot. Thor still carried the cauldron on his back. The goats ran as best they could, but while Snarler ran well and ran fast, even with the weight of the giant's cauldron to pull, Grinder limped and staggered. Its leg had once been broken for marrow, and Thor had set it, but the goat had never been as strong again.
- Grinder bleated in pain as it ran.
- "Can't we go any faster?" asked Tyr.
- "We can try," said Thor, and he whipped the goats so they ran even faster.
- Tyr looked behind. "They are coming," he said. "The giants are coming."
- They were indeed coming, with Hymir at their reaer, urging them on: all the giants of that part of the world, a many-headed monstrous bunch, the giants of the waste, misshapen and deadly. An army of giants, all intent on getting their cauldron back.
- "Go faster" said Tyr.
- It was then that the goat Grinder stumbled anad fell, throwing them out of the chariot.
- Thor staggered to his feet. Then he threw the cauldron to the ground and began to laugh.
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- Thor carried the cauldron to Asgard, to the meeting of the gods.
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