Þessi skal kenna kellu heiti:
Sága, Sigyn, Sif, Þrúðr, Iðunn,
Frigg ok Bestla, Fulla ok Nanna,
Gefjun ok Hǫrn, Gerðr ok Laufey.
Skal kenna þessi heiti kellu: Sága, Sigyn, Sif, Þrúðr, Iðunn, Frigg ok Bestla, Fulla ok Nanna, Gefjun ok Hǫrn, Gerðr ok Laufey.
One must qualify these names for woman: Sága, Sigyn, Sif, Þrúðr, Iðunn, Frigg and Bestla, Fulla and Nanna, Gefjun and Hǫrn, Gerðr and Laufey.
[4] Sif: The wife of Þórr, whose name means ‘affinity’; cf. sifjar (f. pl.) ‘kinsmen, relations by marriage’ (cf. also Hárb 48/1, Hym 3/5, 15/5, 34/6, Lok prose and Þry 24/9). In the Prologue to SnE, Sif (= Sibil) is said to be the most beautiful of all women, whose hair resembled gold (SnE 2005, 5; see also p. 26 and Skm, SnE 1998, I, 14, 20, 30, 35, 40-2). According to Skm (SnE 1998, I, 41-2), Loki cut off Sif’s hair and was compelled by Þórr to make dwarfs fashion a wig of gold for her, which grew like normal hair. The name of this goddess frequently occurs in kennings for ‘woman’, but it is not mentioned in Þul Ásynja (see Introduction).