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Skaði is not found in England in the same way as she is in the Norse, Swedish and Danish lore because she is not so important to the English. Skaði is the personification of the Scandinavian land, this is where the name Scandinavia comes from, "Skaði's land". In Old English Scede is a posible name for Skaði and the Old English Scandinavia is called Scedeland (see Beowulf), also original homeland of the Danes is Skane (Scandia).

Skaði is the winter shadows and therefore can be seen in English as Sceadu meaning shadow or dark shape (pronounced she-ad-u from where we got shadow). As the Anglii came from the southern Danish peninsular and the Saxons came from northern Germany they were not so attached to Skaði as their cousins in Scandinavia proper. It could be that Nerthus takes the Skaði role for the Anglii and Gefion for the Danish islands (she ploughed them from the Swedish mainland). When the Angles and Saxons came to England they left Nerthus behind and it is likely the Norse left Skaði behind too.

Ynlingasaga say this of the marriage of Njorð and Skaði:

'Njord took a wife called Skade; but she would not live with him and married afterwards Odin, and had many sons by him, of whom one was called Saeming; and about him Eyvind Skaldaspiller sings thus: -- "To Asa's son Queen Skade bore Saeming, who dyed his shield in gore, -- The giant-queen of rock and snow, Who loves to dwell on earth below, The iron pine-tree's daughter, she Sprung from the rocks that rib the sea, To Odin bore full many a son, Heroes of many a battle won." To Saeming Earl Hakon the Great reckoned back his pedigree. This Swithiod they called Mannheim, but the Great Swithiod they called Godheim; and of Godheim great wonders and novelties were related.'

Other lore recorded by Snorri suggests Skaði married Ullr after Njorð.

You must remember that Heathenry is very connected to the land where you live, our ancestors only worshipped the dieties and wights of the land where they lived so when they left Scandinavia they had no call to continue to worship Skaði or Nerthus, when they came to England they were much more interested in Weland and other Gods of these islands. Sky Gods such as Woden, Thunor etc continued to be worshipped as the sky is everywhere.

I starred. Hopefully you get a better answer from an actual Asatru. I imagine it happened in a story of some sort, but not all of the stories have survived the ravages of time. At least more has survived from the ancient Nordic past than if you were trying to recreate the pagan scientific knowledge lost in the 4 burnings of the Library at Alexandria. There may still be an answer out there for you.

answer: They found that neither could stay in the realm of the other and separated.

Starring for Noddy to catch, he's an authority on Anglo-Saxon Heathenism.

http://englishheathenism.homestead.com/godsandgodd...

poor bobby, no answers ;-(

i cant help you either, i know nothing about these things