The streets of the huge city were gloomy. Thor and his friends walked on and finally came up to a huge building where the doors were open.
“Let us go inside that.” Thor told his friends.
They agreed.
Inside the place, they found that it was a banquet hall. There was a massive table in the centre of the hall and stone thrones around the table. There were giants sitting on the stone thrones around the table.
One of the giants looked like the leader and so Thor went to him and greeted him.
The giant carelessly studied Thor. “I am not going to ask you any questions about your journey. I know that you are Thor. And the others are your friends.” The giant waved at the table. “We have a rule that only the worthy can sit on this table. So if you wish to sit here, you should be able to prove your worth by some feat.” The giant studied Thor. “What are you going to do?”
Loki came forward. “I am known to eat food very fast.” Loki studied the giants. “Keep some food before me and I can eat it faster than any one of your giants.”
The chief giant nodded. “That is a good trait.” The giant turned to his people. “Get Logi here.”
Logi was a thin giant who came to the table.
A huge trough of meat was placed on the table and Loki was on one side and Logi was on the other side.
The competition started and both of them ate as fast as possible and it almost seemed like Loki and Logi met at the middle of the table eating exactly half.
But it was found that Loki had eaten only the meat, but Logi had eaten the bones too.
So Logi was decided to be the winner of this competition.
Adapted from Norse Mythology
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