Suttungr’s Family Tree

About Suttungr →

Family

• Gillingr(parent),Baugi(sibling)

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

• Gunnlöð(child)

  Gunnlöð is the daughter of the jötunn Suttungr, charged with guarding the Mead of Poetry deep within the mountain Hnitbjörg.

Guards

• Mead of Poetry

  Suttungr hid the Mead of Poetry inside the mountain Hnitbjörg after seizing it from the dwarves Fjalar and Galar as compensation for his father Gillingr's murder.

Rules over

• Hnitbjörg

  Suttungr sealed the Mead of Poetry within Hnitbjörg and set his daughter Gunnlöð to guard the vessels deep inside the mountain.

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.

Associated with

• Baugi

  Baugi brought Odin, disguised as Bölverkr, to his brother Suttungr and asked him to share the Mead of Poetry, but Suttungr refused to part with a single drop.

• Fjalar and Galar

  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.

• Odin

  Odin stole the Mead of Poetry from Suttungr by seducing his daughter Gunnlöð inside Hnitbjörg, draining all three vessels, and fleeing in eagle form while Suttungr gave chase as another eagle, arriving too late at Asgard's walls.