Skadi is a female giant goddess (jötunn), daughter of Thjazi, wife of Njord...
The etymology of the name Skaði is uncertain, but may be connected with the original form of Scandinavia.
She is esteemed as a huntress and is known as the "snowshoe goddess" for her connection to the frozen wilderness.
Skadi is best known in conjunction with her husband (Njord) and her step-children (Freyr and Freyja).
Skadi is a bold and courageous female character in the Norse epics, who challenged male-dominated society by demanding that the Æsir (a clan of gods) compensate her for the death of her father...
In order to avenge the death of her father, the giant Thiazi, Skadi took up arms and went to attack the rival tribe of the gods (the Aesir) in Asgard, home of the gods.
The Aesir, wanting to appease her anger, offered her the choice of one of their number for a husband, with the stipulation that she choose a god by his legs (or feet) alone.
She chose Njörd, thinking that he was the fair god Balder; their marriage failed because Njörd preferred to live by the sea, and Skadi was happier in her father’s home in the mountains (Thrymheim).
She is the goddess of Vengeance, Righteous Anger, and is the deity who delivers the sentence upon Loki the trickster to be bound underground with a serpent dripping poison upon his face in payment for his crimes.
As with her husband, Skadi's place at Ragnarok (the Norse version of Armageddon) isn't declared.
Though a frost giant, the Asatru legend doesn't declare whether Skadi will fight alongside the other giants, the goddess Hel and her siblings the Fenris Wolf and Jormundgand the Midgard Serpent, or if she will fight with the Aesir, the valkyries and the Einherjar when the world comes to its next turning...
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