"The lads here do a thing which is not much. They lift my cat up from
the ground. I should not have thought of proposing such a feat to
Asu-Thor, had I not first seen that he is less by far than we took him
to be."
As he spoke there sprang upon the hall floor a very large grey cat. Thor
went up to it and put his hand under its middle and tried to lift it
from the floor. The cat bent its back as Thor raised his hands, and when
Thor had exerted himself to the utmost the cat had only one foot off the
floor. Then Thor would make no further trial.
"I thought this game would go so," said Utgard-Loki. "The cat is large
and Thor is little when compared with our men."
"Little as you call me," answered Thor, "let any one come here and
wrestle with me, for now I am angry."