Hymiskviða

Hymiskviða (Old Norse: 'The lay of Hymir';[1] anglicized as Hymiskvitha, Hymiskvidha or Hymiskvida) is a poem collected in the Poetic Edda.

[2] The Æsir consult their augury twigs and decide, since Ægir owns a lot of kettles for making beer, that he should be their host frequently.

That presents a problem, until Týr remembers a particularly large kettle in the possession of his father Hymir.

The poem then tells the story of how Þórr almost caught the Jörmungandr, which is also recounted in the Prose Edda.

There follows the slaying of hordes of jötnar, whereupon the Æsir leave with the kettle and booze contentedly at Ægir's place ever after (or at least until Lokasenna).