Key Info

- Tasked by her father to guard the Mead of Poetry

- Gives the mead away after being seduced by Odin

Brief Bio

Suttungr has entrusted his daughter Gunnlöð to the guard of the mead of poetry.

But Odin, in the form of a snake, manages to gain access to the chamber within the Hnitbjörg mountain where the mead is kept. The god seduces the guardian Gunnlöð. Gunnlöð allows Odin to obtain three drinks of the mead. In the first draught he drank everything out of Odrerir, and in the second out of Bodn, in the third out of Son, and then he had all the mead. Afterwards, he immediately flies himself out of the cavern as an eagle.