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In Norse mythology, Skaði (sometimes anglicized as Skadi, Skade, or Skathi) is a jötunn and goddess associated with bowhunting, skiing, winter, and mountains. Skaði is attested in the ''Poetic Edda'', compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources; the ''Prose Edda'' and in ''Heimskringla'', written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in the works of skalds. In all sources, Skaði is the daughter of the deceased Þjazi, and Skaði married the god Njörðr as part of the compensation provided by the gods for killing her father Þjazi. In ''Heimskringla'', Skaði is described as having split up with Njörðr and as later having married the god Odin, and that the two produced many children together. In both the ''Poetic Edda'' and the ''Prose Edda'', Skaði is responsible for placing the serpent that drips venom onto the bound Loki. Skaði is alternately referred to as Öndurguð (Old Norse "ski god") and Öndurdís (Old Norse "ski ''dís''", often translated as "lady"). The etymology of the name ''Skaði'' is uncertain, but may be connected with the original form of ''Scandinavia''. Some place names in Scandinavia, particularly in Sweden, refer to Skaði. Scholars have theorized a potential connection between Skaði and the god Ullr (who is also associated with skiing and appears most frequently in place names in Sweden), a particular relationship with the jötunn Loki, and that ''Scandinavia'' may be related to the name Skaði (potentially meaning "Skaði's island") or the name may be connected to an Old Norse noun meaning "harm". Skaði has inspired various works of art. ==Etymology== The Old Norse name ''Skaði'', along with ''Sca(n)dinavia'' and ''Skáney'', may be related to Gothic ''skadus'', Old English ''sceadu'', Old Saxon ''scado'', and Old High German ''scato'' (meaning "shadow"). Scholar John McKinnell comments that this etymology suggests Skaði may have once been a personification of the geographical region of Scandinavia or associated with the underworld.〔McKinnell (2005:63).〕 Georges Dumézil disagrees with the notion of ''Scadin-avia'' as etymologically "the island of the goddess Skaði." Dumézil comments that the first element ''Scadin'' must have had—or once had—a connection to "darkness" "or something else we cannot be sure of". Dumézil says that, rather, the name ''Skaði'' derives from the name of the geographical region, which was at the time no longer completely understood. In connection, Dumézil points to a parallel in ''Ériu'', a goddess personifying Ireland that appears in some Irish texts, whose name he says comes from ''Ireland'' rather than the other way around.〔Dumézil (1973:35).〕 Alternatively, ''Skaði'' may be connected with the Old Norse noun ''skaði'' ("harm"),〔Davidson (1993:62).〕 source of the Icelandic and Faroese ''skaði'' (“harm, damage”) and cognate with obsolete English ''scathe'', which survives in ''unscathed'' and ''scathing''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skaði」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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