Fjallar and Gallar

Fjallar and Gallar is two dwarf brothers of the Scandinavian Mythologie. They killed wise the Kvasir and created the poetic Hydromel starting from its blood.

A little later they invited the Gilling giant and his wife. They proposed with the first to at sea go for a walk. The giant accepted. Once to broad, the dwarves turned over the boat, sending Gilling in water. Not knowing to swim, he died.

The dwarves turned over on their premises and announced his death with his wife. The latter, very afflicted, did not find comfort. Wearied its tears, Fjallar offered to him to take it along on the spot of dead of her husband. The giantess, estimating that it could there be collected, was favorable to this proposal. However, when it passed the door of the house, Gallar, according to the orders of his/her brother, precipitated a grinding stone of mill on cranium of the widow and killed it. The dwarves continued then their life, taking care on hydromel. Gilling had a son, Suttung. As he learned death from his parents, he ran to the dwarves. Arrived, it seizes them, threw them on board their boat and carried out them on a shelf which the low tide had revealed. He threatened to let them there drown there. The brothers begged it to leave them the life saves and Fjallar promised to give hydromel to him if it saved them. Suttung considered this agreement advantageous and brought back the dwarves in their residence, where it accepted the invaluable beverage.

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