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I think each country has attractive female celebrities, e.g. Kumiko Takeda of Japan, Wang Tsu-Hsien of Republic of China, Aishwarya Rai of India, Olga Kurylenko of the Soviet Republics, Kate Beckinsale of England, Kristen Kreuk of Canada, Monica Bellucci of Italy, Kelly Hu of Hawaii, Felicia Lee of Singapore, etc. I can only judge mainly by their looks, for I haven't met most of them, and I don't read celebrity gossip rags. Kumiko Takeda is the most beautiful lady I've seen in person, and she's nice to everyone around the world I hear. Some celebrities and vain and egotistical, but she isn't. She was born in Fukuoka, Japan and moved to California where I met her. Wang Tsu-Hsien has visited California, and she was a spoiled brat to everyone. Some of my Chinese friends dealt with her, and they now depise her.
I think each country has attractive female celebrities, e.g. Kumiko Takeda of Japan, Wang Tsu-Hsien of Republic of China, Aishwarya Rai of India, Olga Kurylenko of the Soviet Republics, Kate Beckinsale of England, Kristen Kreuk of Canada, Monica Bellucci of Italy, Kelly Hu of Hawaii, Felicia Lee of Singapore, etc. I can only judge mainly by their looks, for I haven't met most of them, and I don't read celebrity gossip rags. Kumiko Takeda is the most beautiful lady I've seen in person, and she's nice to everyone around the world I hear. Some celebrities and vain and egotistical, but she isn't. She was born in Fukuoka, Japan and moved to California where I met her. Wang Tsu-Hsien has visited California, and she was a spoiled brat to everyone. Some of my Chinese friends dealt with her, and they now depise her.
The Goddess Skaði.... feel like I'm missing something?
Q. According to the Irminen Gesallschaft Website Njorð and Skaði are no longer married, but I have not read anything about them splitting up... is this strictly German Lore, or did I just miss something?
Also, is Skaði found in England? If so what is her Anglo-Saxon name?
Thanks!
--feels like i'm gossiping about celebrities--
Also, is Skaði found in England? If so what is her Anglo-Saxon name?
Thanks!
--feels like i'm gossiping about celebrities--
Answer
Skaði is not found in England in the same way as she is in the Norse, Swedish and Danish lore because she is not so important to the English. Skaði is the personification of the Scandinavian land, this is where the name Scandinavia comes from, "Skaði's land". In Old English Scede is a posible name for Skaði and the Old English Scandinavia is called Scedeland (see Beowulf), also original homeland of the Danes is Skane (Scandia).
Skaði is the winter shadows and therefore can be seen in English as Sceadu meaning shadow or dark shape (pronounced she-ad-u from where we got shadow). As the Anglii came from the southern Danish peninsular and the Saxons came from northern Germany they were not so attached to Skaði as their cousins in Scandinavia proper. It could be that Nerthus takes the Skaði role for the Anglii and Gefion for the Danish islands (she ploughed them from the Swedish mainland). When the Angles and Saxons came to England they left Nerthus behind and it is likely the Norse left Skaði behind too.
Ynlingasaga say this of the marriage of Njorð and Skaði:
'Njord took a wife called Skade; but she would not live with him and married afterwards Odin, and had many sons by him, of whom one was called Saeming; and about him Eyvind Skaldaspiller sings thus: -- "To Asa's son Queen Skade bore Saeming, who dyed his shield in gore, -- The giant-queen of rock and snow, Who loves to dwell on earth below, The iron pine-tree's daughter, she Sprung from the rocks that rib the sea, To Odin bore full many a son, Heroes of many a battle won." To Saeming Earl Hakon the Great reckoned back his pedigree. This Swithiod they called Mannheim, but the Great Swithiod they called Godheim; and of Godheim great wonders and novelties were related.'
Other lore recorded by Snorri suggests Skaði married Ullr after Njorð.
You must remember that Heathenry is very connected to the land where you live, our ancestors only worshipped the dieties and wights of the land where they lived so when they left Scandinavia they had no call to continue to worship Skaði or Nerthus, when they came to England they were much more interested in Weland and other Gods of these islands. Sky Gods such as Woden, Thunor etc continued to be worshipped as the sky is everywhere.
Skaði is not found in England in the same way as she is in the Norse, Swedish and Danish lore because she is not so important to the English. Skaði is the personification of the Scandinavian land, this is where the name Scandinavia comes from, "Skaði's land". In Old English Scede is a posible name for Skaði and the Old English Scandinavia is called Scedeland (see Beowulf), also original homeland of the Danes is Skane (Scandia).
Skaði is the winter shadows and therefore can be seen in English as Sceadu meaning shadow or dark shape (pronounced she-ad-u from where we got shadow). As the Anglii came from the southern Danish peninsular and the Saxons came from northern Germany they were not so attached to Skaði as their cousins in Scandinavia proper. It could be that Nerthus takes the Skaði role for the Anglii and Gefion for the Danish islands (she ploughed them from the Swedish mainland). When the Angles and Saxons came to England they left Nerthus behind and it is likely the Norse left Skaði behind too.
Ynlingasaga say this of the marriage of Njorð and Skaði:
'Njord took a wife called Skade; but she would not live with him and married afterwards Odin, and had many sons by him, of whom one was called Saeming; and about him Eyvind Skaldaspiller sings thus: -- "To Asa's son Queen Skade bore Saeming, who dyed his shield in gore, -- The giant-queen of rock and snow, Who loves to dwell on earth below, The iron pine-tree's daughter, she Sprung from the rocks that rib the sea, To Odin bore full many a son, Heroes of many a battle won." To Saeming Earl Hakon the Great reckoned back his pedigree. This Swithiod they called Mannheim, but the Great Swithiod they called Godheim; and of Godheim great wonders and novelties were related.'
Other lore recorded by Snorri suggests Skaði married Ullr after Njorð.
You must remember that Heathenry is very connected to the land where you live, our ancestors only worshipped the dieties and wights of the land where they lived so when they left Scandinavia they had no call to continue to worship Skaði or Nerthus, when they came to England they were much more interested in Weland and other Gods of these islands. Sky Gods such as Woden, Thunor etc continued to be worshipped as the sky is everywhere.
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