Gillingr’s Family Tree

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Family

• Baugi(child),Suttungr(child)

  Baugi and Suttungr are brothers, both sons of the jötunn Gillingr who was drowned by the dwarves Fjalar and Galar.

Slain by

• Fjalar and Galar

  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.

Member of

• Jötnar

  The jötnar are the primordial race of giants descended from Ymir, dwelling in Jötunheimr. They stand as the eternal adversaries and reluctant kin of the Æsir — many gods count giantesses among their mothers, yet the two races clash across every age until Ragnarök.