The giantess goddess of snowy peaks, skiing, and the hunt
A giantess by birth, yet joined to the gods by a marriage. Her father Þjazi carried off the youth goddess Iðunn and was slain by the gods. Skaði stormed into Asgard in full armor to avenge him, and the gods made peace on the terms of a marriage and of making her laugh. She goes on skis, draws a longbow, and hunts across the snowy peaks — a rare giantess in Norse myth who demanded justice of the gods by force and got it.
One of the terms of the truce was that the gods make Skaði laugh — and she, grief-stricken for her father, was set on not laughing. Loki tied one end of a rope to a goat’s beard and the other to himself, and tugged back and forth with the goat in such an absurd struggle that Skaði at last laughed through her tears. This vengeance ending in farce made her one of the gods.
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