The Prose Edda on Utgard-Loke
The Younger Edda: > Chapter Xiv. > Thor'S Adventures.
attribution: Utgard-Loke recognized Thor but mocked him as a stripling, calling him Oku-Thor and questioning if he was really as big as expected
"smiled scornfully and showed his teeth, saying: It is late to ask for tidings of a long journey, but if I am not mistaken this stripling is Oku-Thor, is it not?"
attribution: Utgard-Loke acknowledged Thjalfe as the fastest runner to ever visit, despite his loss
"this I confess, that there has never before come anyone hither who was swifter of foot than you."
attribution: Utgard-Loke declared Elle had thrown men who seemed no less strong than Thor, establishing her as a formidable opponent
"She has thrown to the ground men who have seemed to me no less strong than Thor."
attestation: Utgard-Loke required all guests to demonstrate a craft or accomplishment beyond most men to stay in his hall
"No one can stay with us here, unless he is skilled in some craft or accomplishment beyond the most of men."
attestation: The drinking horn was described as normally emptied in one draught by good drinkers, two by some, and no drinker too wretched for three
"From this horn it is thought to be well drunk if it is emptied in one draught, some men empty it in two draughts, but there is no drinker so wretched that he cannot exhaust it in three."
attestation: Utgard-Loke stopped the wrestling and showed Thor hospitality for the night despite his poor performance
"Utgard-Loke stepped forward, bade them cease the wrestling, and added that Thor did not need to challenge anybody else to wrestle with him in his hall, besides it was now getting late. He showed Thor and his companions to seats, and they spent the night there enjoying the best of hospitality."
attestation: Utgard-Loke reveals he bound the provision-sack with iron threads, explaining why Thor could not open it
"when you were to loose the provision-sack I had bound it with iron threads, but you did not find where it was to be untied."
attribution: Utgard-Loke declared he would defend his burg with illusions and never let Thor enter again
"if I live, and may have my way, you shall never enter it again; and this I know, forsooth, that you should never have come into it had I before known that you were so strong"