Sif
Norse · deity · mythic prehistoric · Recorded classification
Golden-haired goddess, wife of Thor, whose shorn hair occasioned the dwarves' forging of the gods' treasures.
Children
Domains
- harvest fertility
Powers
- bears hair of living gold, restored by the dwarves after Loki shears it
Relations
- spouse: ThorGolden-haired Sif is the wife of Thor; her son Ullr (by an unnamed father) already lists Sif as parent.Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál (Prose Edda), ch. 35 (the shorn hair / dwarf-treasures tale); Gylfaginning ch. 31 (primary)
Sources
- existence: Prose Edda, Gylfaginning 31; Skáldskaparmál 35; Poetic Edda, Lokasenna 53-54 (primary)