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When the gods killed her father [[Thjazi]], she journeyed to [[Asgard]] to avenge him, but then she agrees that she would have that renounced if they allowed her to choose a husband among them and if they succeeded in making her laugh.
The gods allowed her to choose a husband, but she had to choose him only from his feet; she choose Niord because his feet were so beautiful that she
Then [[Loki]] succeeded in making her laugh, so peace was made, and [[Odin]] made two stars from Thjazi's eyes.
After a while, she and her husband separated, because she loved the mountains ([[Thrymheim]]), while he wanted to live near the sea ([[Noatun]]).
The [[Ynglinga saga]] says that later she became wife of Odin, and had many sons by him or she left Niord for [[Ull]].
She is the goddess who tied the serpent above Loki's body when he was bounded to the three rocks; this is a footnote to the poem in the [[Elder Edda]], [[Lokasenna]].
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Her name could mean "damage" or "goddess of the underground world".
Her name is sometimes mentioned as the source of the name "[[Scandinavia]]"
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