Gilling

First appears: Younger Edda · Brage's Talk · Chapter IV · The Origin of Poetry

Life events

• Gilling drowned after Fjalar and Galar capsized their boat.(Younger Edda · Brage's Talk · Chapter IV · The Origin of Poetry)
  • With: Fjalar Galar
  • “When they had gotten a short distance from shore, the dwarfs rowed onto a blind rock and capsized the boat. Gilling, who was unable to swim, was drowned”

Younger Edda · Brage's Talk · Chapter IV · The Origin of Poetry

• child: Suttung “When the giant Suttung, the son of Gilling, found this out he came and seized the dwarfs, took them out to sea and left them on a rocky island, which was flooded at high tide.”

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