The following night Odin plays chess with Mimer while he ponders, patially challenged by the ravens to demonstrate his superior intelligence.Who could have paid for the murdering of Suttung's parents?

The two sons are out of the question. What would they gain from it?,

asks Mimer. An extremely valuable mead were paid as a penance to

Suttung. The penance was demanded, not offered. Maybe the kingpin is

someone, who finds it a lot easier to get the mead from a stupid giant

than from two blood-thirsty dwarves? Perhaps Suttung is actually in

danger, right now?

- At the same time, Odin's wolves have discovered an uninvited visitor,

who neutralizes them. Odin sneaks to investigate the source of the

suspicious noise and is all of a sudden attacked fy a furious and

threatening suttung, whose wellclad appearence barely cover his rude and

uncontrollably angry, thug-like character. He orders Odin to keep his

nose to himself...or else! Then he scowls at the ravens and Mimer and

disappears.

A shocked Mimer is positive that Suttung is the one, who chopped his

head off...except the age isn't right. Odin insists on plaing detective

and together with Mimer he goes through, (flashback), the events

following the War, the peacemaking between the Asir and the Vanir at

Njord's estate in Vanaheim, where all of the gods spat into a single

jar, the agreement to exchange the richest man and the most wise man

from each country as hostages. From Asgaard came Mimer and Høner who

exchanged homes and estates with the Vanir Kvaser and Njord, Njord

brought his teenage twins, Frej and Freja, who were very proud that

their father had been accepted among the gods.

Later, the chopped off head of Mimer was returned with a note saying it

was against the rules to send a giant as a hostage from the Asir. Odin

was about to give Kvaser the same treatment Mimer had gone through, when

the young daughter of Njord, Freja, saved the situation by, (through

rune-ingraving magic), teaching Odin how he, with the magic potions of

the Vanir and his own divine spit, could conjure life into the head of

Mimer

As if it only happened yesterday, Mimer could still clearly remember his

murderers: the giant Gilling and his thugs.There had never been any

revenge or penance, bacause shortly after the incident both Høner and

Kvaser had disappeared. The accusations flew among the Asir and the Vanir

of retributional killing, but without bodies or perpetrators the whole

case became just another thing of the past.. even though, according to

Mimer, it was mostly beacuse Odin spent all his time on learning the

erhmm.. "art of magic potions" from Freja.

Suttung is far too young to be the same as Gilling, - in that case he

must be Gilling's son! So the giant the dwarves killed must have been

Gilling, something Mimer deems to be a suitable fate for the giant So is

there a connection between Suttung's threatening behaviour, the killing

of Gilling and Mimer's past? Mimer doesn't think so and he's about

getting enough of Odin's deductions.

Once again there's a suspicious noise. Painfully aware of what happened

the last time, the wolves fall back, leaving it to Odin this time, who

determinedly knocks the intruder over. Burt this time it's not Suttung,

but a hangoverridden Loke who's returning. Loke had been playing dices

with the dwarves since last night to win the secret of the valuable

mead: It was brewed from the spit of Gods! How disgusting! Loke is

deeply disappointed and goes to bed. But a light has dawned on Odin.

What happened to the spit from the peacemaking after the War? The jar

was placed in the old estate of Njord. Did Høner get hold of it when he

came to Vanaheim and took over the estate? Or did Njord bring it with

him? How did the dwarves get hold of it? Even though Odin doesn't have

the full picture yet, it occurs to him that Njord is the only survivor

of the 4 original hostages. Could it be that good, old Njord was behind

all of it? Highly unlikely, but...

Odin rides to the stormblown Noatun and confronts Njord, whose shaky

consciousness makes him spill his guts pretty quick.

When the Vanir chose their hostages, they found that no man among them

was wise enough.

That led the most skilled of the Vanir sorcerors to pour the godspit in

a claydoll and thus invoking life and divine wisdom into it. (Flashback,

as a part of the ritual one of the spellcasters draws runes on the

floor, but we don't see who the spellcaster is). This claydoll was Kvaser

who thus also was a mockhostage. Njord had always felt bad about this

cheating, especially after Mimer had been decapitated, when it was

dicovered that he was a mockhostage, -and that was why it remained a

secret. Odin forgives him, he doesn't feel that this "cheating" is worth

mentioning.

Furthermore, Njord tells that if one ever wanted to get the godspit

back, it would be necessary tuo cut off Kvaser's head. Maybe that is the

reason why Kvaser so mysteriously disappeared?, wonders Njord. Odin is

convinced about that, and he also knows who did it, but he doesn't know

on whose command it was done. Who could be so interested in this spit of

the gods? Who could even know where to find it? The most skilled of the

vanir spellcasters? This question scares Njord and makes him shut up

completely, he has no further information for Odin.