Note 39 — Chapter XVI · THE COASTING VOYAGE.
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Niord and his wife, Skadi, had naturally some disputes about their future residence,—he preferring the brightness of his own palace, Noatun, she very naturally yearning after Thrymheim, the abode of her chilly father. The dispute was referred to Forseti, the son of Baldur, the heavenly attorney-general, who decided that they should alternately occupy Noatun for three months and Thrymheim for nine,—which is about the Norwegian proportion of summer and winter.
“Thrymheim, the land Where Thjasse abode, That mightiest of giants,— But snow-skating Skadi Now dwells there, I trow, In her father’s old mansion.” Elder Edda.