Billingr

No genealogical origin or detailed backstory for Billingr is preserved in the cited materials. Billingr appears as a named father in the Hávamál episode (stanzas 96–102) where Odin recounts being denied the daughter of Billingr; the name also occurs in a dwarf-name list in the Hauksbók recension of Völuspá and in a kenning for poetry ('cup of the son of Billing'), producing scholarly debate (e.g., John Lindow) about whether Billingr should be read as a dwarf-name or as a jötunn. The surviving record therefore preserves Billingr chiefly as a point of reference (father of the maiden) and as a name in poetic tradition rather than as the subject of a fuller origin tale.

The provided sources do not supply any physical description of Billingr. In the Hávamál episode the narrative focuses on the household's actions (armed guards, burning torches, and the daughter's substitution of a female dog) rather than on Billingr's personal appearance; no attested portrayal of his bodily form or dress is given in the cited materials.

The extant texts do not attribute explicit supernatural powers to Billingr. In Hávamál he is named as the father whose household thwarts Odin's attempt to meet the maiden: the household's blockade (warriors with swords and burning torches) and the daughter's disappearance/substitution are the means by which Odin is denied. Beyond being a named paternal figure and appearing in kennings and name-lists, the sources do not record personal magical faculties or extraordinary abilities for Billingr.