Fjalar
Norse · numen · primordial · Recorded classification
Norse dwarfs in the sources are not small people with beards; they are makers who kill without motive and trade their way out of it. Fjalar and Galar murder the wisest being alive, ferment him, murder a giant and his wife for the fun of it, and then give the mead away to stay alive. The mead is in Suttungr's mountain because of that transaction.
Domains
- brewing
Relations
- companion: GalarReference treatment of Fjalar and Galar as a pair. (secondary)
- killer of: KvasirReference treatment of the dwarves slaying Kvasir. (secondary)
- enemy: SuttungrReference treatment of Suttung seizing the dwarves for his father's murder and carrying them to a reef at low tide. (secondary)
Sources
- Fjalar is one of the two dwarfs who killed Kvasir and brewed the mead of poetry from his blood, and who surrendered it to Suttungr to save their lives.: Reference treatments of Fjalar, Galar and the mead of poetry. (secondary)