Norse myth explained ocean tides as Thor drinking the sea

Evidence

‘That horn you could not empty — the other end of it was joined to the sea itself. You were drinking down the ocean! And though you could not empty it, you drank so mightily that you have lowered the level of all the seas. When you go to the shore, you will see how far the waters have sunk away — for from now on, the sea will rise and fall.’ And so, the Norse said with delight, the great god Thor, trying to empty a drinking-horn, drank so deep that he created the ocean’s tides — the daily rising and falling of the sea that we see to this day. — , A Year of World Stories, 13559

Categorization

• XREF: Etiological myths explaining natural facts parallel the Filipino ‘why the sky is high’ and other origin stories the chapter explicitly compares.