Talk:Skaði

Pronounciation
pronunciation guide please —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.149.73.155 (talk • contribs) 19:38, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


 * The IPA would be something like [ska:ði], and is therefore a clear case, and not particularly necessary to add. See the pronounciation guide if you are unsure of how to pronounce the IPA symbols. --Holt (talk) 16:48, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Update: Pronounciation guide added in article on request from the guest. –Holt T•C 19:53, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Modern Scandinavian use of Skaði's name
I would like to add a little trivia or a "nice to know" tidbit on the modern use of her name, but I feel uncertain about where to place the paragraph on the page. The addition is about the modern Scandinavian meaning of her name and it's use in a common saying. A temporary translation into English would go like this: "Skadi makes you wise / Wise from Skadi". The real meaning lies in the meaning of her name: damage. This gives us a saying that tells us that we get wiser when experiencing damage first hand, particularly if we did not see the accident coming.

Another challenge for this sort of paragraph is how to include the 2-3 spellings the Scandinavian languages contain and how to avoid making the text more suitable for a language article. Any tips or hints are appreciated! :)

TrondBK (talk) 02:38, 24 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm assuming the sayings "Skadi makes you wise / Wise from Skadi" are translated from the Norwegian sayings "Skade gjør deg klok / Klok av skade". This has nothing to do with the actual goddess, rather the concept skade "damage, injury", and is thus irrelevant to this article.


 * In my romanian language the word "zgatia" roughly means "restless girl". Is given to young women/or virgins, even to young children that are too much "hyperactive". You know, someone who gets into trouble, harm itself or creates situations of this kind, joy of life without a care in the world, like "kids" of a nannie/shegoat that are always are playful, jumping around, "little devils". Maybe is nothing, maybe is everything, but i think the romanian(thracian) Zgatia and scandinavian Skadi are somehow related(she was involved with the trickster-"zgatia" Loki wasn't she). Another similar word, "a zgaltzai", means "to shake", like someone sleeps and you have to shake it to wake up, that shake is "zgaltzaiala". "Gat" means kneck so "zgatie/zgaltzai" means shaking kneck; is onomatopeic, has many synonims/regionalisms: zgudui(usually used earthquake shake), zdruncina, zdroncani, zbicuia, zblendui, zgacina...or maybe is related with "cade", meaning "to fall"(from skiing?) :) Bigshotnews 21:54, 2 April 2011 (UTC)


 * As for the name Scandinavia deriving from Skaði's name, it can be relevant to mention. It has been proposed that the "skaði" in the reconstructed Germanic root *Skaðin-awjō comes from a Skaði cult, or otherwise is related to the goddess, but this is an uncertain theory - I would love to see some thorough work on this, though. So before inserting a paragraph about mere speculations, I would like to see the material on this first. --Holt (talk) 16:17, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

BLP article with libel
This is patently a BLP article. I personally know Skaði. She is definitely alive. Contrary to demands for source for saying she is alive, and married to Odin and Freyja, I would demand any source that she is a "goddess" (well she does look like one), that she is dead, and that this material is not partly libelous or defamatory. Where exactly is your death certificate? I think she can produce some death certificates for you. Obotlig (talk) 16:15, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * This is strange. This user seemed to behave logically and coherently prior to this recent spat of edits. Has this account been hijacked? &#58;bloodofox: (talk) 16:27, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I am surprised to hear this coming from you Bloodofox. Do you honestly think these stories are purely myths? These were not far removed from recorded history. Even if we assume most mythologies are too fantastic to be true, how could these stories from a... very logical and coherent culture became distorted completely from the truth that quickly. I will not keep pushing the issue. Skaði is alive. Not as a ghost per se. Not as a goddess per se. She is alive. This article and Freyja's have some particularly offensive material. These are people, who while "nice" are absolutely not to be trifled with (actually they are not very nice at all but I certainly appreciate their personalities). They don't like being misrepresented. And they have a lot more power than is even recorded in the myths. If you want death certificates I think quite a few are on order. I felt obligated to point out BLP articles that contained libel but I don't want my account blocked on the premise that this is "obvious trolling". I'm not kidding. Have a nice day. Obotlig (talk) 16:47, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

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Missing source info
Reference Simek (2007:287) does not have a corresponding entry in the Citations section. Doing some research it should be this one in any of its editions. Someone more familiar with the article history should probably confirm this and add it accordingly. Banjo (talk) 09:04, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Just saw this — fixed! &#58;bloodofox: (talk) 01:26, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Saxo's Skaði figure
Saxo's Princess Regnilda is obviously a version of Skaði. This was pointed out already by Grimm and Dumézil has a lengthy analysis in his Myth to Fiction. We should bring this into the article one way or another. Haukur (talk) 21:51, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Þjazi Poetic Edda Misattribution
Citation 10 claims to say Þjazi was described as "loved to shoot", but my Oxford copy of the Poetic Edda by Larrington says of him "the disguise-loving giant; Skadi was his daughter." It's in stanza 50 of Hyndluljóð. I couldn't find another line referencing Þjazi at all, but I do know the elements of disguise were pretty major in the characterization of the Jötunn, with relation to animals.

Is this a misattribution, or hold over from another translation of hers? The only translation Larrington did of the Poetic Edda to my knowledge was Oxford World's Classics, but it may be in another work of hers, I guess. I have her copy of Thames & Hudson's The Norse Myths, but I doubt such a niche thing would be in a beginner's-guide-to type of book.

Did anybody else find any possible wonky misattributions to Larrington throughout this article, or was this the only one? Wondering if I'm crazy lol. FenrirSkin (talk) 05:26, 30 December 2023 (UTC)