Thor said, in a low rumble, like thunder echoing on adistant mountaintop, “And me? What did I actually do last night?”Utgardaloki was no longer smiling. “A miracle,” he said. “You did the impossible. You could not perceive it, but the end of the drinking horn wasin the deepest part of the sea. You drank enough to take the ocean leveldown, to make tides. Because of you, Thor, the seawater will rise and ebbforevermore. I was relieved that you did not take a fourth drink: you might have drunk the ocean dry

Thor’s Journey to the Land of the Giants