Norse analogue · Mountain huntress
Skadi
Skadi is a jotun who chose her husband by his feet, claimed mountains as her dowry, and became the winter huntress of the gods.
Story shape
The bow in the white silence
After the gods killed her father Thjazi, Skadi came to Asgard armed and demanding compensation. She was offered marriage to a god but chose by the beauty of feet alone, winning Njörðr. The marriage failed; she returned to the mountains where her skis and bow speak more truly than any hall.
Skadi is one of the clearest expressions of the northern wild: a woman who negotiates with the divine on her own terms and keeps the high cold places as her true home.
Tradition boundary
Old Norse sources do not have a direct equivalent to the classical Greek nymph. The northern figures gathered here are wave-maidens, forest beings, and nature spirits whose lives are bound to water, weather, and hidden land.