Examples of goddesses attested in Norse mythology include Frigg ( wife of Odin, and the Anglo-Saxon version of whom is namesake of the modern English weekday Friday ), Skaði ( one time wife of Njörðr ), Njerda ( Scandinavian name of Nerthus ), that also was married to Njörðr during Bronze Age, Freyja ( wife of Óðr ), Sif ( wife of Thor ), Gerðr ( wife of Freyr ), and personifications such as Jörð ( earth ), Sól ( the sun ), and Nótt ( night ).

Scholars have theorized a potential connection between Skaði and the god Ullr ( who is also associated with skiing and appears most frequently in place names in Sweden ), a particular relationship with the jötunn Loki, and that Scandinavia may be related to the name Skaði ( potentially meaning " Skaði's island ") or the name may be connected to an Old Norse noun meaning " harm ".

The god Njörðr asks Freyr's servant Skírnir to talk to Freyr, and in the first stanza of the poem, Skaði also tells Skírnir to ask Freyr why he is so upset.

High notes that Skaði is also referred to as " ski god " ( Old Norse Öndurgud ) or Öndurdis and the " ski lady " ( Öndurdís ).

Scholar Jesse Byock notes that the goddess Skaði is also associated with winter and hunting, and that the episode in Volsunga saga involving the male Skaði, Sigi, and Breði has been theorized as stemming from an otherwise lost myth.

Modern works of art depicting Skaði include Skadi und Niurd ( illustration, 1883 ) by K. Ehrenberg and Skadi ( 1901 ) by E. Doepler d. J. Skaði also appears in A. Oehlenschläger's poem ( 1819 ) Skades Giftermaal.

In chapter 75, Skaði is included among a list of 27 ásynjur names.

Scholars have theorized about whether or not Freyja and the goddess Frigg ultimately stem from a single goddess common among the Germanic peoples ; about her connection to the valkyries, female battlefield choosers of the slain ; and her relation to other goddesses and figures in Germanic mythology, including the thrice-burnt and thrice-reborn Gullveig / Heiðr, the goddesses Gefjon, Skaði, Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa, Menglöð, and the 1st century BCE " Isis " of the Suebi.

Skaði says that, with these events in mind, " baneful advice " will always come from her " sanctuaries and plains " to Loki.

Loki says that Skaði was once gentler in speech to him ( referring to himself as the " son of Laufey ") when Skaði once invited him to her bed ( an event that is unattested elsewhere ), and that such events must be mentioned if they are to recall " shameful deeds.

High recalls that Skaði wanted to live in the home once owned by her father called Þrymheimr (" Thunder Home ").

High states that afterward Skaði went back up to the mountains to Þrymheimr and recites a stanza where Skaði skis around, hunts animals with a bow, and lives in her fathers old house.

Some of these similarities include that, in parallel to Skaði and Njörðr in Skáldskaparmál, Hadingus is chosen by his wife Regnhild after selecting him from other men at a banquet by his lower legs, and, in parallel to Skaði and Njörðr in Gylfaginning, Hadingus complains in verse of his displeasure at his life away from the sea and how he is disturbed by the howls of wolves, while his wife Regnhild complains of life at the shore and states her annoyance at the screeching sea birds.

In all sources, Skaði is the daughter of the deceased Þjazi, and Skaði married the god Njörðr as part of the compensation provided by the gods for killing her father Þjazi.

Skaði responds that, if this is so, " baneful advice " will always flow from her " sanctuaries and plains ".

High recalls that Skaði wanted to live in the home once owned by her father called Þrymheimr.

Skaði provides them with her terms of settlement, and the gods agree that Skaði may choose a husband from among themselves.

Loki dropped into Skaði's lap, and Skaði laughed, completing this part of her atonement.

Lee Hollander explains that " bones-of-the-sea " is a kenning for " rocks ", and believes that this defective stanza undoubtedly referred to Skaði as a " dweller of the rocks " in connection with her association with mountains and skiing.

In Snorri Sturluson's Haustlöng ( source ) Njörðr is married to the giantess Skaði as part of the compensation provided to her by the Æsir for killing her father, Þjazi.

Snorri's Ynglinga Saga relates that after the giantess Skaði broke off her marriage with Njörd, she " married afterwards Odin, and had many sons by him, of whom one was called Sæming " from whom Jarl Hákon claimed descent.

The goddess Skaði says that while Loki now appears light-hearted and " playing " with his " tail-wagging ," he will soon be bound with his ice-cold son's guts on a sharp rock by the gods.

In the prose, Loki has been bound by the gods with the guts of his son Nari, his son Váli is described as having been turned into a wolf, and the goddess Skaði fastens a venomous snake over Loki's face, from which venom drips.

Even so, the gods themselves were related to the giants by many marriages, and there are giants such as Ægir, Loki, Mímir and Skaði, who bear little difference in status to them.

Odin describes Þrymheimr as consisting of " ancient courts " and refers to Skaði as " the shining bride of the gods ".

Skaði tells Loki that he is " light-hearted " and that Loki will not be " playing [...] with tail wagging free " for much longer, for soon the gods will bind Loki to a sharp rock with the ice-cold entrails of his son.

Þjazi's daughter, Skaði, took a helmet, a coat of mail, and " all weapons of war " and traveled to Asgard, the home of the gods.

Due to their shared association with skiing and the fact that both place names referring to Ullr and Skaði appear most frequently in Sweden, some scholars have proposed a particular connection between the two gods.

Many of the jötnar are described as beautiful, Skaði being described as " the shining bride of the gods ".

However, Skaði must choose this husband by looking solely at their feet.

High further states that Njörðr's wife is Skaði, that she is the daughter of the jötunn Þjazi, and recounts a tale involving the two.

As one of the three acts of reparation performed by the Æsir for Þjazi's death, Skaði was allowed by the Æsir to choose a husband from amongst them, but given the stipulation that she may not see any part of them but their feet when making the selection.

Expecting to choose the god Baldr by the beauty of the feet she selects, Skaði instead finds that she has picked Njörðr.

Chapter 8 states that Njörðr married a woman named Skaði, though she would not have intercourse with him.

In chapter 23 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, the enthroned figure of High details that Njörðr's wife is Skaði, that she is the daughter of the jötunn Þjazi, and recounts a tale involving the two.

Skaði saw a pair of feet that she found particularly attractive and said " I choose that one ; there can be little that is ugly about Baldr.

The poem refers to Skaði as " the wise god-bride " and notes that she " could not love the Van ".

This account details that Skaði had once married Njörðr but that she would not have sex with him, and that later Skaði married Odin.

In both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, the goddess Skaði is responsible for placing a serpent above him while he is bound.

In both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, Skaði is responsible for placing the serpent that drips venom onto the bound Loki.

Skaði gathered men together to look for Breði and the group eventually found the corpse of Breði in a snowdrift.

Although Snorri Sturluson does not mention the dísir in the Prose Edda, he does list Vanadís —' dís of the Vanir '— as a name for Freyja, and öndurdís —' snow-shoe dís '— as a name for Skaði.