Skadi in the Poetic Edda

Skadi in the Poetic Edda

From have the version of the Poetic Edda translated by Patricia Terry are several passages that refer to Skadi.

(from Skirnir's Journey)
Njord's son Frey was at Hlidskjalf looking out over all the worlds. In Jotunheim he saw a very beautiful maiden as she walked from her father's hall to her own. From that moment on he was heartsick.

Frey had a servant called Skirnir. Njord asked him to try to get Frey to talk. Then Skadi said:

"Get up, Skirnir, go and try
to speak to our son
find out why Frey who has wisdom
is now so sad."

(from The Insolence of Loki)
... Njord was there, his wife Skadi, Frey and Freya, and Odin's son Vidar...

Skadi said:
"Wanton Loki, you won't much longer
feel your tail free:
the gods will use your cold son's guts
to bind you to a boulder."

Loki said:
"Perhaps the gods will take Nari's guts
and bind me to a boulder,
but when it came to killing Thjazi,
I was first and foremost."

Skadi said:
"If, when it came to killing Thjazi,
you were first and foremost,
from my house and holy temples
you'll have cold counsel."

Loki said:
"You spoke more sweetly to Laufey's son
when you lay beside me in bed.
There's a tale well worth the telling,
if we're all to air our faults.

Loki hid in the Franang waterfall in the shape of a salmon. There the Aesir captured him. He was bound with the guts of his son Nari. But his son Narfi became a wolf. Skadi took a poisonous snake, and tied it up head downwards over Loki's face. Sigyn, Loki's wife, sat there beside him holding a bowl which caught the venom that dripped down. But when the bowl was full, she had to carry it outside, and meanwhile the venom dripped on Loki. Then he struggled so hard that the whole earth shook, and that is what people now call earthquakes.

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