Gilling
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Gilling is a jötunn who was invited by Fjalar and Galar to the sea, where they capsized their boat and drowned him. Suttungr is his son. Fjalar and Galar offered mead to Suttungr in compensation for Gilling's death.
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“Fjalar and Galar invited a jötunn, Gilling, and his wife. They took him to sea and capsized their boat and the jötunn drowned. The dwarfs then came back home and broke the news to Gilling's wife, which plunged her deep in grief. Fjallar proposed showing her the place where her husband had drowned”
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