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

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.

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.

The etymology of the name Skaði is uncertain, but may be connected with the original form of Scandinavia.

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 Old Norse name Skaði, along with Sca ( n ) dinavia and Skáney, may be related to Gothic skadus, Old English sceadu, Old Saxon scado, and Old High German scato ( meaning " shadow ").

Alternatively, Skaði may be connected with the Old Norse noun skaði (" harm "), whence the Icelandic skaði (“ harm, damage ”).

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.

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.

On the other hand, Skaði may potentially be a masculine form and, as a result, some scholars have theorized that Skaði may have originally been a male deity.

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

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

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.

Skaði then responds:

Skaði then marries Odin, and the two had numerous sons.

The guts of " Nari or Narfi " are then used to tie Loki to three stones, after which the guts turn to iron, and Skaði places a snake above Loki.

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.

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

Scholar John McKinnell comments that this etymology suggests Skaði may have once been a personification of the geographical region of Scandinavia or associated with the underworld.

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

Lindow notes that Loki and Skaði appear to have had a special relationship, an example being Skaði's placement of the snake over Loki's face in Lokasenna and Gylfaginning.

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.

Skaði is alternately referred to as Öndurguð ( Old Norse " ski god ") and Öndurdís ( Old Norse " ski lady ").

In the prose introduction to the poem Lokasenna, Skaði is referred to as the wife of Njörðr and is cited as one of the goddesses attending Ægir's feast.

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

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.

Njörðr is father of the deities Freyr and Freyja by his unnamed Van sister, was in an ill-fated marriage with the goddess Skaði, lives in Nóatún and is associated with sea, seafaring, wind, fishing, wealth, and crop fertility.

Njörðr, Skaði, and Freyr as depicted in The Lovesickness of Frey ( 1908 ) by W. G. Collingwood

Njörðr and Skaði on the way to Nóatún ( 1882 ) by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine

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.

" This is followed by an excerpt from a composition by the 11th century skald Þórðr Sjáreksson, explained as containing a reference to Skaði leaving Njörðr:

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 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.

Skaði is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources ; the Prose Edda and in Heimskringla, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in the works of skalds.

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.

Njörðr, Skaði, and Freyr as depicted in The Lovesickness of Frey ( 1908 ) by W. G. Collingwood.

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

In chapter 32, Skaði is listed among six goddesses who attend a party held by Ægir.

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 ).

Dumézil says that, rather, the name Skaði derives from the name of the geographical region, which was at the time no longer completely understood.

Another figure by the name of Skaði who appears in the first chapter of Völsunga saga.

In the chapter, this Skaði — who is male — is the owner of a thrall by the name of Breði.

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.

Its name comes from Norse mythology, where Skaði is a giantess who is the wife of the Vanir god Niord.

* An anglicized form of the Old Norse goddess name Skaði