Fylling read books that he borrowed from the priests in the district and from the Daae family at the Solnør farm.
[3] In mid-June 1862, Henrik Ibsen arrived in Sunnmøre with a grant from the Collegium Academicum, the governing body at Royal Frederick University, to collect legends and folk tales.
Thoresen used the stories that she heard from Fylling in her volume Billeder fra Vestkysten af Norge (Pictures from the West Coast of Norway, 1872).
The folk material collector Thrond Sjursen Haukenæs also visited Fylling at his home in Skodje.
"[3] Fylling himself published the volume Folkesagn samlede paa Søndmør 1ste Del (Folk Material Gathered in Sunnmøre, Part 1) in 1874.