Suttungr
Norse · numen · primordial · Recorded classification
He does everything right and loses anyway: takes lawful compensation, hides the goods inside a mountain, posts a guard he can trust. Odin gets in through his own brother and out past his own daughter, and the skalds who told the story were the people who had the mead afterwards — which is worth remembering about whose account this is.
Children
Domains
- guardianship
Relations
- enemy: FjalarReference treatment of Suttung seizing the dwarves for his father's murder. (secondary)
- father of: GunnlöðThe guard he posted.Reference treatment: Suttung appointed his daughter Gunnlod to watch over the mead. (secondary)
- sibling: BaugiThe brother who drilled the hole for Odin.Reference treatment of Baugi as Suttung's brother, whose help Odin used to get into the mountain. (secondary)
Sources
- Suttungr is the jötunn who took the mead of poetry from the dwarfs as compensation for his father's murder, hid it under Hnitbjörg and set his daughter Gunnlöð to guard it, and lost it to Odin by way of his brother Baugi.: Reference treatments of Suttungr, the mead of poetry and Hnitbjorg. (secondary)