In the Scandinavian Mythology, Njörd is the god of the sea, the winds and fire. He at sea brings good fortune as well as a good fishing.

He is married with the giant E Skadi but his/her children were designed with his own sister. They were Vanes besides and were exchanged at the time of the truce with the Ases. The latter indicated Njörd and Freyr, his/her son, like high priests to chair the sacrifices. Freyja, his/her daughter, was devoted as sacrificial priestess. She taught sorcery Vanirienne, a common art for the Vanes gods.

His/her sister and the mother of her children would have been Nerthus which did not accompany them at the Adzes, those rejecting the unions between brothers and sisters.

Skadi chooses it only by looking at its feet and regretted soon its choice, the residence of Njörd, Noatun (with Ásgard), being too noisy because of the many boats in construction around. In any event Njord did not appreciate either the residence of Skadi with Jötunheim and this one went back there without him.

The ambivalence of the couple is obvious, Njörd being a symbol of fruitfulness, good fishing and chance while Skadi came from an assembly line frozen, rocky and arid that low clouds masked sun permanently. No man could have lived in this wild and pitiless country where nothing could hope to push.

Simple: Njord

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