Fjalar and Galar invited the giant Gillingr out to sea and capsized his boat on a reef, drowning him — then dropped a millstone on his wife's head as she grieved at the threshold.
The dwarves Fjalar and Galar murdered Kvasir and drained his blood into three vessels, brewing the Mead of Poetry from it as told in Skáldskaparmál.
The dwarves Fjalar and Galar slew Kvasir, the wisest of beings, and brewed the Mead of Poetry from his blood mixed with honey in the kettles Són and Boðn and the vat Óðrørir.
Fjalar and Galar are Dvergar who gained infamy for murdering Kvasir and brewing the Mead of Poetry from his blood, and for drowning the giant Gillingr and slaying his wife.
When Suttungr discovered that Fjalar and Galar had murdered his father Gillingr and his mother, he carried the dwarves out to a skerry at sea and forced them to surrender the Mead of Poetry as the price of their lives.
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