(Skade) is the Goddess of snowshoes and skis. She is the embodiment of winter. She travels on skis, carries a bow and hunts. She is the daughter of the giant Thiazi. During the war between the Vanir and the Aesir, Thiazi was killed. Skadi went to Asgard to enact vengeance. When she arrived, the Aesir offered her compensation instead. They told her that she could marry any man there, but had to choose by looking at only his feet. She made an error, and chose Njord by mistake. She also demanded that someone make her laugh. The final item came from Thor. He threw her fathers eyes up into the heavens and they became stars.
Njord and Skadi’s marriage did not work out to well. After they separated, she hooked up with Odin and had children with him. That, too, did not last, and eventually, she married Ull. Ull, also a winter God, is the son of Sif and stepson of Thor. He is the God of justice and dueling and the patron God of agriculture.
