↟ Skaði – The mythical goddess of the Northern wilderness ↟

❄️ She hunts in the mountains of Scandes with a bow and cross-country skis, and sometimes Skaði is associated with the winter dís. Living among frost giants in Trymheim and Jotunheim, and the giant Tjasse is her father.

❄️ In Norse mythology the story goes that she came to Asgard to avenge her father, the giant Tjasse who was killed by the gods of Asgard. Instead of revenge the gods offered her a compensation – she would marry one of them. To do so, she had to choose by looking at their feet while they’re lined up behind a cloth.

❄️ Skaði wanted to marry the god of light Baldr, and thought that the most beautiful feet must be his. But it was not, those feet belonged to the god of the sea; Njord. The marriage was not successful, Njord wanted to live by the sea in his dwelling Noatun. Skaði wanted to live in the mountains and hear the wolves howling at their Trymheim. They agreed to stay nine nights at each place and eventually they lived separately.

❄️ The death of her father Tjasse was caused by Loki, Odin and Höner. They’re travelling through Scandinavia and had hunted down a musk ox, which they were cooking over a open fire. Then Tjasse (in Eagle form) stole half of the ox and Loki tried to hit him with a pole from the fire which stuck on Tjasses back. Eventually, Odin and the others killed Tjasse. This scene is described in Tjodolf by Hvins drapa “Haustlang”, long before the Edda was written, and are depicted on a rock carving from Lökeberget in Bohuslän, Sweden from 1100 BC.