Skaði (Skadi / Skathi)

[@GypsyScot1]

I really have to admire how far Loki is willing to go for the sake of a bit.

[@lynnsiecooley1900]

Loki is the best lol.. Life in the sphere/inner circle of the gods just wouldn’t be the same, wouldn’t be as entertaining, & would be much more dull w/o a Loki in the mix. 🙄🤔😆🤗🙌🏻💯💯

[@AZTLANSOLDIER13]

Chaos is an eternally driving force.

[@moonfire41]

A little known fact about Loki is he is also a deity of magic.

[@grimnir2922]

@@moonfire41 In what way is that little-known?

[@moonfire41]

Grimmir Im thinking of the uneducated people who dont know anything about him except the stereotypes that he's the norse devil and only known for mischief and chaos.

[@janavanrossum6174]

Every time I walk on the beach I think of Njord and his beautiful feet ;)

[@slugg878]

skadi is my favorit north goddess. I believe she is very fast and deliberate, a well trained warrior, with a beautiful northern way. I feel so friended by her. after i had started to believe in skadi my thoughts about the north changed.

[@surehang]

My cat rarely ever purrs and I could hear her purring loudly while I was playing this video. If I paused yhe video, she stopped. Either she really likes Skadi or she really likes your voice.

[@Ravynwulf]

Yeah! You did Skadi, she is my all time favorite! ♥️ Jackson that's a very nice arm ring your wearing. Beautiful....

[@zell9058]

Thor drives two rams.

[@autumnwindwalker]

Winner. Winner. Chicken. Dinner.

[@markcash2]

I think I married Skaði. She spends all her time teaching astrophysics but she would rather grab her bow and her skis and take off across the snow hunting elk or moose.

[@simonfeatherstone5540]

Our NFC is named Skaði by us. She is a fearsome hunter, although she not that keen on rain and snow. Thanks for the explanation.

[@skadibell3722]

came to learn more about my name, thank you for this!

[@ericesper348]

Is there any Linguistic conection between the name Skađi and the insular celtic warrior goddess/woman named Scathach who trained Cuchullain? Skađi (injury)- eng. scathe- Scathach Supposedly her name means shadowy one in Scots Gaelic but her character is much of a sort with skadi.

[@seanboyd2898]

That may just be Scottish women in general.

[@GrandsonofstFerdinand]

She was my 61st great grandmother.

[@c.c.frodin1987]

Awesome video, and thank you for sharing your knowledge. I definitely relate to Skadi; always looking for a good laugh. I don't know if you take requests right now, but I'd love to see a video on the mention of swords in the old norse literature, as in what they're called or how they're described. I understand they were a kind of status-symbol.

[@valeriy8502]

Is your sense of humour as twisted as Skaði? If so I relate 😂

[@Wanted1069]

Just named my Newest Daughter, Skadi! We're still at the hospital💯👍

[@trifunjovanovic6521]

Great video! Can you make a video about Balder? Huge respect from Slavs!

[@nkhtn663]

Dr. Crawford's done this video on Baldr, if you haven't seen it yet: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpyrioqqp7x2jqc

[@HotZetiGer]

Boginya Skal i Skatov - bread kakoito :)

[@pauljohnston6089]

another great vid. Thanks.

[@kubilay6294]

I think what Skadi did to Loki was revenge for the active role he'd played in Thiazi's death.

[@sunshinesilverarrow5292]

Thank you, as always, a good one. Wishing you a lovely weekend. Hugs & sunshine ☀️N Ps. That lovely house in the background gives me the "Little house on the prairie" vibes 🐎🌻 🦅

[@lealundquist]

I just checked out your channel. I was looking for information on Skadi. You signed off from beautiful Colorado so I am very curious where you are I live in Grand Junction.

[@colinp2238]

There seems to be much interaction between Loki and her family as the reason why the Aesir killed Thjazi is because it was he that coerced Loki to abduci Idunn. Hid death was their retaliation to that action. Interestingly her name is injury and she considered herself to be the injured party in the death of her father but it could be said that he brought it upon himself.

[@juliaconnell]

what a great tale - feet, goat and all. thanks as always Dr Crawford (still a challenge to get my head round snakes in Scandinavia...)

[@xway2]

There are snakes in Scandianvia, if that's what you're asking. Here in Sweden there's one venomous species, and two non-venomous.

[@bearofthunder]

Do you see any similarities between Skadi and Ullr? I have always perceived those two at skiing and hunting gods.

[@valeriy8502]

Lets take a moment to appreciate how dedicated Loki is to a cause despite all the mischief he is usually blamed for 😂

[@MarkCavan2]

How did the translation of “Giant” from Jötunn / Eoten come to be in the first place? Great video by the way 👍🏻

[@user-pm1gb2eo1s]

Marc Caomhánach I believe it was fine to draw a parallel with Greek mythology and the Titans, who were a race if giants opposed to the gods. I think I remember him mentioning it somewhere. A lot of early Norse names were translated to sound more Greek since the audience of people who read them were usually more familiar with Greek and Roman mythology and considered it to be more “sophisticated.”

[@user-pm1gb2eo1s]

Merlith Gero In That case, I am truly not quite sure, although the only explanation I have ever heard is that the translation was used to form a parallel with Greek mythology.

[@MarkCavan2]

ᚺᛁᛚᛗᛟᚦᛊ ᚢᚾᚠᛟᛞᚨ Thanks for the answers guys! I had a look at the Bēowulf manuscript, and noticed two parts where the “Eotanas” are mentioned, the translator of my book translated the first mention of them as “Ogres” and a bit later he translates them as “Jutes”. Thought it quite interesting.

[@valeriy8502]

@@merlith4650 So they were magnanimous in power but not stature

[@jennpipp26]

I love your channel. Minus the part of you driving a Dodge 😂

[@jayjeep6746]

You're cute

[@jennpipp26]

Jay Jeep 🤓

[@Matt_The_Hugenot]

I know what she means about seagulls. That's a fabulous looking place to live.

[@lynnsiecooley1900]

Totally love your stuff. Not very many other ppl out there dish out the info. so organized & concisely, good for learning & taking it in. I’ve been trying to learn more about Norse religion amongst others we know little about such as ancient celts, & I’ve found it difficult finding good sources that actually give very much info. & details… Apparently this is the sort of thing that’s going to require actual legit research lol, because a quick glance online or at the bookstore just pulls up a bunch of crap….&& off topic, but my GOD am I jealous of your life love! Would kill to have access to beautiful open land like that behind you, would kill to have a job researching, learning about, & teaching subjects that I love… Would kill to be out in the middle of nature in Colorado, omg, I’m just so jelly! Lol. Good for you, good stuff. Keep up the great wrk, I enjoy learning what I can about the real history of the Norse & their beliefs & will look forward to more of your videos! 🙌🏻 ✌🏻💜☺️☯️♾

[@joeampolo42]

Now I'm wondering if laugh and Loki are cognate or somehow etymologically connected.

[@christopherrowley7506]

Laugh in Old Norse and modern Icelandic is hlæja, with that 'h' in front, so that got me thinking, since it would be unlikely then that Loki and hlæja developed from the same root, otherwise Loki would be Hloki. Looking it up that 'h' also appears in the Old English, Old Saxon, Old High German, and Gothic words for laugh. The word is therefore reconstructed in Proto Germanic as *hlahjaną. So very unlikely for the sound to drop off in one word but not another.

[@joeampolo42]

@@christopherrowley7506 Thanks. Answers my question. So they're only vaguely alliterative, nothing more. Somewhere a poet could have put that to use, I might suppose.

[@joeampolo42]

@Kellogs Rex Yeah, now I remember. Some neopagan told me something like that once. Lock meaning twist as in a twist of hair, or a loop of wire used to fasten a fence ... lock, loop , and warlock might all be cognate. Warlock meant word bender or someone who swears by Loki. He should probably have preferred wiccan to warlock.

[@kishaheena]

In present day Danish the word "Skade" means Injury or Harm ... and it also is the name of the black and white Magpie bird.

[@tamanassman]

this strikes me as a parallel to the story of the giant having to pick Freyja by the look of her feet as payment for the building of Asgardr. Would this be a mythological refrain, or might it actually be a custom from folk tradition that was around among these tribes of humans - men, giants, gods, elves etc. ..... and if they worked in stone and so the Aesir had to hire them to build the walls of Asgardr because not knowing how to this means the 'giants' were more technologically advanced. Tall-tale telling and boastings of Thor's vanquishing of them more and more seems like Caesar's slandering of the Gauls....... "at the centre of the world" - one place no longer there comes to mind..... Doggerland, which stretched from and the Pennines to the Skaggerak (if that was even open, I'm not sure how deep it is - the strait between Denmark and Sweden - . Long ways from anywhere with stone, but lots of rivers just like the Nile was used to move huge blocks of cut stone. Who cut it and how remains the big question, given what else has so far been found of massive stonework.... So here' my hypothesis.... somewhere in the North Sea soundings are gonig to find a megalithic structure.....in the centre of the great North European Plain that once filled the space where now is the North Sea. And near it, two bridges..... though the one of frost, if Bifrost was such, is long melted...... the other one whose name I cannot remember, is likely also there. It would seem on an island, given the bridges.... one of them frozen in winter........ The thing is the 'sinking' of Doggerland - Asaheim, with Vanaheim to the west and Jotunheimen to the east - was in 6000 BC..... yet the story of Asgardr's destruction - and not by the sea - seems to directly refer to 537-541 AD, the Great Years of Darkness...the three-year winter, Fimbulvetr. And is also temporally cognate with the wars between the men and the giants and elves and gods in the British Isles told of in the Mabinogion and the Taigne bo Culaigne, and the Vanir seem part of the stories, from my readings/feelings about them..... After 547-541 AD the cult of Odin rose, so far as I know, above that of Tir, who had been the primary Germanic god,, cognate of Zeus if I'm not mistaken. Justice, the sky like Indra. Though I think that also had more to do with the destruction of the Irminsul in 622 AD by Charlemagne and the dispersal/sllaughter of those at the Eckensteine (sp?). where we know what it looked like because Charlemagne had an image of it carved there. A true Roman Emperor would have hauled it back to Rome and featured it in a Triumph and put it in the Forum...... So out of that 7th C. breakup of paganism in Holy Romanized Germania came countless wanderers, bearing tales and knowledge... the priests of Tir and knowledge of him and had been slaughtered ... as knowledge was orally transmitted more than written. And if there were those who kept records of what the Veleda says, they are gone to. History is not one by the victors, but by those who erase it..... .

[@Norpan83]

Is there a reason that languages like english an german have the same word for "right" as in beeing righthanded and beeing correct. While modern scandinavinan languages have different word roots for those?

[@bulletsnleather3275]

Latin/Romance linguistic influence perhaps? The Anglo-Saxons, tribes from modern Germany, and the Frisians all had much more contact with the French and Romans than the Scandinavian cultures. Strictly conjecture on my part though

[@Hvitserk67]

We don't (the scandinavians). As for beeing "correct" we say "rigtig/riktig" (danish/norwegian) and that word comes from the german word "richtig" (as for "recht" in german and "right" in english). We kan also say "korrekt" with the same meaning (germanic origin as with the english word correct). "Right" as in beeing righthanded we say "højre/høyre (danish/norwegian) and that word comes from old norse "hægri", which in turn originates from "højere/høyere" (danish/norwegian) - "higher" in english - meaning "the more appreciated" in the sense that the right hand is more ("higher") comfortable to use for the most part than the left hand :)

[@Sprout59]

How would you write 'Skaði' in Elder Futhark Runes? (Would you use dagaz or thurisaz for 'ð'?)

[@DevsQuillsandCartoons]

I do find Skadi to be one of the more interesting goddesses of Norse Mythology. And not just because I like snow and hunting

[@Fordil9881]

Hi i was wondering how would you write skadi in futhark

[@faramund9865]

I'm still a little bit confused about the "Jotunn", you mentioned that "giant" is an unfortunate translation in some videos. Some ARE giants from what I read (like Ymir). So I wonder, what is the thing that binds the Jotunn together. What characteristics do characters in the group "Jotunn" all have? Is it really just a family? And what evidence suggests that they are a rival family to the Aesir. And how come a lot of the are indeed giants or thralls or whatnot.

[@NickCybert]

Giant is a bad translation of Jotunn, because it has nothing to do with the word "Jotunn." It's related to the word "to consume," in Old Norse. Jotunn appear to be just a family of god-like creatures. Just like the Aesir and Vanir are really just two families of gods, with the main difference between them being class (Aesir are upper class). Jotunn fit into this structure by being a third class below Vanir. This is why Dr. Crawford points out that Vanir men marry Jotunn women. They'd never be allowed to marry an Aesir woman.

[@deeproot9826]

Norse Mythology is simply not absolute there are no demons vs angels, every being is judged individual and can even vary from time to time like Loki. Many(not all) Jotunns have a sort of consuming/uncontrolloable destructive nature like Ymir not allowing for anything else to exist but are not inherited evil. The first war to be descibed as such are actually between Aesir and Vanir which in short are described as equal destructive and pointless. All 3 have had war/skrimishes and all 3 have had good relations even to the point of romantic and sexual. There are however individual eternal enemies/rivals. This may still not be a simple good vs evil scenario, but a more complex description. Size, looks, intentions also is indivdual and most have the ability to shapeshift and even change sex in any case. Always keen in mind that European Mythology is mostly riddles about something entirely different than what you blatantly read straightforward.

[@faramund9865]

@@deeproot9826 I never assumed the first thing you mentioned to be true. I was just wondering what it is that ties them together, what it is that makes them worthy of having a group name. The rest was decently informative, thank you.

[@deeproot9826]

@@faramund9865 My response was mostly to the second comment but Im not really trying to correct anyone. Its just my 2 cents I might be wrong but the more I read the more mixed gods/jotunns I find for each generation starting with Odin. The only "pure" if that even is a thing are Odins father and grandfather but on the other hand they are never mentioned as aesir that I know of, and the offspring(s) of Ymir that escape Odins slaughter of Ymir to what will be known as Jotunheim starting the next generation of "pure" jotnar.

[@Kasarii]

Taking a step back from the mythology, you have a story of three degrees of tribal affiliations. The "home team" would be the Aesir, the "allies" are the Vanir, the "others" are the Jotun. This - by and large - reflected the society that produced the mythology. There are occasional conflicts with both allies and the home team, but also occasional friendships with the others.

[@tacticaltaco2145]

Is there a keyboard for that letter? On IOS.

[@MrMaagaard]

"Skade" current danish, meaning damage. My leg is damaged "Mit ben har en skade" Also a magpie (bird) is a "Skade" in danish.

[@Hvitserk67]

The word "skade" in modern Danish and Norwegian comes from "skaði", but as far as I understand this is a common Germanic word. Eg. old german "scado" (modern german "schade") and old english "scaþa". In this context I can also recommend the book Dansk Etymologisk Ordbog - "Danish Etymological Dictionary" - Gyldendal ISBN 978-87-02-09830-3.

[@user-pm1gb2eo1s]

Same thing in Afrikaans, but as previously stated, this is because it derived from a Common Germanic route

[@christopherrowley7506]

@@Hvitserk67 Is it available online anywhere? There is a good online Icelandic etymological dictionary at malid.is and a good german one at dwds.de and wiktionary isn't always bad

[@elineeugenie5224]

'schade' in current Dutch.

[@c.c.frodin1987]

Almost the same in Swedish: En skada = an injury. Fascinating about the magpie being called Skade in danish, I did not know that, and now I'm curious why.

[@tamanassman]

oh yeah, re giants/jotnar... is there any connection with the Slavs or maybe the Balts? Sorbs/Wends/Pomeranians etc. Lithuanians? Estonians/Finns? your thoughts, please, Dr. Jackson.

[@unalunaelvishwitchfae4250]

💖💖❄❄love this x

[@kishaheena]

Is there a connection between Skathi and Skythia ? ( And also does the name Scandinavia, come from Skathi ? )

[@eriksandberg2430]

maybe and no

[@PrestonH-q5w]

Dr. Crawford, you should go on Rogan's podcast! It would be a hoot!

[@valeriy8502]

Straighten Rogan out about some Norse history misconceptions 😂

[@michaelhansen2818]

But didn't Njorðr and Skaði get a divorce, and Skaði ended up getting married to Ullr?

[@nkhtn663]

No-- they've definitely got some similar associations, like the snowshoes, but we have very little info on Ullr in the medieval texts, and being married to Skaði isn't mentioned. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKKak5WhbcebkMU Snorri mentions her as marrying Óðinn after in Ynglinga saga, but given the euhemerization/Snorri trying to link royal and divine ancestry, his tendency to make things more cohesive, and the fact that it's (afaik) the only referent we have for that story, it's not really conclusive.

[@johnwoyurka3547]

I have also read that Skadi and Njord divorce and she and Ullr marry however I've only seen it in one place so I do not know the validity.

[@matrac79]

In Slovak skoda (shkoda) - harm, damage, pitty

[@xinic5]

Did they make Skadi choose by judging their feet, or did she just secretly have a foot fetish?

[@kreion]

Fun fact : The word "Gard" in Romanian means "Fence"

[@autumnwindwalker]

Feet. The dark web. .................... Not touching that with a 10' cattle prod.

[@oneukum]

When she says "our son" for a step-son does she use the dual pronoun or the plural pronoun?

[@nathangoodfellow5260]

I love Norse Mythology but I have to admit as wacky as the Myth Storys are I believe whoever came up with them thousands of years ago had to much time to waste and was way to Drunk on Mead