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Mythology Meme:

Five OTPs – Sigyn and Loki (3/5)

“In stanza 35 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, a völva tells Odin that, amongst many other things, she sees Sigyn sitting very unhappily with her bound husband, Loki, under a “grove of hot springs”. Sigyn is mentioned a second (and final) time in the ending prose section of the poem Lokasenna. In the prose, Loki has been bound by the gods with the guts of his son Nari, his son Váli is described as having been turned into a wolf, and the goddess Skaði fastens a venomous snake over Loki’s face, from which venom drips. Sigyn, again described as Loki’s wife, holds a basin under the dripping venom. The basin grows full, and she pulls it away, during which time venom drops on Loki, causing him to writhe so violently that earthquakes occur that shake the entire earth.”

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harmonious-relations:

Moderns all too often seem to read into Her story passivity, victim-hood, and a regrettable lack of agency. I truly do not know whether this is because She demonstrated these arguably most Heathen of virtues in defense of Loki, who is a very controversial figure in the modern community, because we know nothing else of Her story via the lore, or because She isn’t depicted as bold, brash, or sexually independent (like Freya). I would hate to think that Her strength, Her loyalty, Her constancy are all too often overlooked perhaps because these things are exercised primarily in the enclosure of Her domestic sphere.

Request for carolinebingley1991 Alyssa Sutherland as Sigyn

Words from here