Gunnlöð

[3] Skáldskaparmál (The Language of Poetry) mentions that the jötunn Suttungr has entrusted his daughter Gunnlöð to the guard of the mead of poetry: Suttung took the mead home with him and put it for safe keeping in a place called Hnitbiorg, setting his daughter Gunnlod in charge of it.

But Odin, in the form of a snake, manages to gain access to the chamber within the Hnitbjörg mountain where the mead is kept.

[4][2] In return, Gunnlöð allows Odin to obtain three drinks of the mead, after which he immediately flies himself out of the cavern as an eagle.

In Hávamál (Sayings of the High One), the account given by Odin differs in a number of details, and the narrative pays most attention to Gunnlöð herself.

I doubt I would have returned back from the giants’ domain, if I hadn’t had Gunnlöd, that fine woman whom I laid in my arms.