Slow Havamal: 105

In verse 105, Suttung’s daughter Gunnlod gives Odin a draught of mead while he sits on a golden chair. He remarks that he later repay her badly for her trusting an troubled mind.

Odin is treated with hospitality and served a special mead which we will later learn grants gifts such as poetry. It’s a dear possession of the giants, and his place on a golden chair shows he is honored during his visit. Whether his cause was to be granted the mead, or he happened on it while pursuing something else, I can’t say, but he was very taken by it, and he foreshadows the events to come. ( Read more... )