A valkyrie who has been asleep for years, imprisoned by her own armor. When Sigurth frees her, she tells him her story. Two kings were fighting, Agnar and Hjalm-Gunnar, and Odin had promised victory Hjalm-Gunnar. Sigerdrifa killed Hjalm-Gunnar in battle, and in retaliation Odin shot her with a sleep thorn ( Crawford 253). She proceeds to give Sigurth advice on how to act and behave in the world in return for her freeing him.

Brynhild is usually portrayed as a Valkyrie or shield-maiden. She is Attila the Hun's sister. Sigurth disguises himself as Gunnar to woo her. He even sleeps with a sword between them because he is already married. After his death at the hands of Gotthorm, she commits suicide by stabbing herself with his sword and burning on his funeral pyre with him.

In another poem, she is burned on a wagon covered in cloths and is said to have ridden long the road to Hel. She tells of teh story in which she killed Hjalmgunnar, which leads a lot of scholars to believe Brnynhild and Sigerdrifa are the same person. Odin puts her to sleep for the same reason (Crawford 290).

SHe is the giant daughter of the giant King Thiazi, who ruled Thrymheim, the storm-home. When Thiazi chases after Idun (and her golden apples), the gods kill him. Skadi is furious.She swears vengeance and she “donned a coat of mail and a helmet and chose the finest of her father's weapons: a sword engraved with magic serpentine patterning, a spear with a shaft of ash,a circular shield covered with hide and inlaid with birds of prey” (Crossley Holland 44). She goes to Asgard to kick somebody's butt, and the gods wanting nothing more to do with the whole affair, offer her marriage to one of them. She also demands that someone make her laugh. Odin decrees that she must pick her husband by his feet, and all of the gods hide behind screens with just their feet showing. She wanted to pick Balder, so she picks the most shapely feet. It turns out to be Njord, “lord of seafarers and sea harvests” (45). Then Loki proceeds to tie a strap around his testicles and pretend the other end is tied to a goat to make her laugh. Odin casts her father's eyes into the heavens to become stars and always watch over her.

Njord and her don't get along. They can decide where to live so they agree to live at each other's place for nine days at a time. Eventually Njord can't take living in stormy Thrynheim, so they live separately, but stay married.

When Loki is bound, Skadi is the one who hangs a vile snake over his head to drip poison down on him.

Skadi is a type of ice goddess, and she is associated with skiing in particular. There are also references to snow shoes.

Source: Crossley-Holland, Kevin, The Norse Myths

She is a giant that Freyja tricks into reciting the family lineage of Ottar's family. Ottar is Freyja's lover, but she denies that this is the case, and the whole time Ottar is disguised as her giant boar that she rides. Hyndla recites the lineage perfectly and Freyja demands she give Ottar the memory-beer. Hyndla basically calls Freyja a whore, saying “you leap around at night like Heidrun cavorting with a herd of goats” (Crossley-Holland 102).Heidrun is the goat that gives Asgard a neverending supply of meed from its teets. When Hyndla refuses, Freyja encompasses her in a girdle of fire, Hyndla acquiesces and gives them the memory-beer, claiming it is poisonous.

The mother of monsters, she is secretly married to Loki. Together they have Jormungand the serpent, Fenrir the wolf, and Hel, a quiet, polite girl.

The daughter of a berserk chief, she spent several years of her youth as a bandit killing people in the forest for their possessions. HEr grandfather makes some attempt to reign her in, but some of his slaves make fun of her and so she goes on a Viking quest to prove her worth.

She boldly enters her dead fathers' burial chamber to retrieve his sword and ends up in a contest of wills with the misogynist ghost. Eventually he gives it to her. She becomes a pirate for awhile, then eventually returns and marries. She retires, but her granddaughter will take up arms as a shield-maiden, “keeping up the family tradition of unconventional behaviour” (64). Source Valkyrie by fridhriksdottir_johanna_katrin