Name of giantess:  Skadi

Where did she come from: She came from Thrymheimur, a district in the Giants' World.

Husband, children and things of value:  Her husband is Njordur, the god of the seas. Skadi has a bow to hunt animals.

A story of the goddess: Skadi went to the Gods' World to revenge her father, Thjasi, whom the gods had killed.  But the gods offered to pay her whatever she wanted as a compensation.  She wanted to choose one of the gods as her husband.  She was only allowed to see their feet and thought that she had chosen Baldur, the white one, but it turned out that she'd chosen Njordur.  Skadi was raised  in the mountains of the Giants' World.  She wanted to have her home up in the mountains.   But Njordur wanted of course to live by the seaside.  Their marriage thus didn't work and they got divorced.
 

How do we use the name of this goddess in modern society? The word skadi means damage and skadabaetur means payment for damage or compensation.
 

Kristin Birna and Steinunn