In revenge, his son Suttungr tortures the dwarfs into giving him the mead of poetry.
[3] In Skáldskaparmál (The Language of Poetry), the dwarfs Fjalar and Galar kill Gillingr by overturning his boat.
[2][1] When his wife hears of the news, she is "greatly distressed" and "weeps loudly" and the dwarf Galar, "weary of her howling", eventually kills her by dropping a millstone on her head.
Gilling could not swim and was drowned, but the dwarfs righted their boat and rowed to land.
Gillingr is mentioned in a skaldic verse by Eyvindr skáldaspillir (10th c. AD), who portrays the mead of poetry as "Gilling’s compensation".