Suttungr


In Norse mythology, Suttungr was a jötunn and the son of Gilling.

Mythology

Suttungr searched for his parents and threatened the dwarven brothers Fjalar and Galar who had killed them, tying them and some other dwarves who killed Gilling to a rock that would be submerged by the rising tide. The dwarves begged for Suttungr to spare their life and offered him the magical mead of poetry. Suttungr took it and hid it in the center of the mountain Hnitbjorg, with his daughter Gunnlöð guarding the magic mead. Odin get to drink from it by her in return for making love to her for three nights.
Odin eventually decided to obtain the mead. He worked for Baugi, Suttungr's brother, a farmer, for an entire summer, then asked for a small sip of the mead, which Suttungr refused. Baugi drilled into the mountain and Odin changed into a snake and slithered inside, whence his name Bölverkr. Inside, Gunnlöð was on guard but he persuaded her to give him three sips in exchange for three nights of sex. Odin proceeded to drink all the mead in the three containers, changed into an eagle and escaped. Suttungr chased him in the shape of an eagle, but Odin was able to escape him and returned to Asgard, yet only barely. In birds' fashion he puked the mead into great containers put out by the æsir. Suttungr, however, got so close to fetching him that he had to let some of the mead out the backsterior. This mead in the face of Suttung, diverting him, fell to the ground and became the drink that makes people pissed, not the mead making wise skalds.