Talk:Skaði

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[edit] Pronounciation

pronunciation guide please —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.149.73.155 (talk • contribs) 19:38, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

The IPA would be something like [ska:ði], and is therefore a clear case, and not particularly necessary to add. See the pronounciation guide if you are unsure of how to pronounce the IPA symbols. --Skadinaujo (talk) 16:48, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Update: Pronounciation guide added in article on request from the guest. –Skadinaujo T•C 19:53, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Modern Scandinavian use of Skaði's name

I would like to add a little trivia or a "nice to know" tidbit on the modern use of her name, but I feel uncertain about where to place the paragraph on the page. The addition is about the modern Scandinavian meaning of her name and it's use in a common saying. A temporary translation into English would go like this: "Skadi makes you wise / Wise from Skadi". The real meaning lies in the meaning of her name: damage. This gives us a saying that tells us that we get wiser when experiencing damage first hand, particularly if we did not see the accident coming.

Another challenge for this sort of paragraph is how to include the 2-3 spellings the Scandinavian languages contain and how to avoid making the text more suitable for a language article. Any tips or hints are appreciated! :)
TrondBK (talk) 02:38, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm assuming the sayings "Skadi makes you wise / Wise from Skadi" are translated from the Norwegian sayings "Skade gjør deg klok / Klok av skade". This has nothing to do with the actual goddess, rather the concept skade "damage, injury", and is thus irrelevant to this article.

As for the name Scandinavia deriving from Skaði's name, it can be relevant to mention. It has been proposed that the "skaði" in the reconstructed Germanic root *Skaðin-awjō comes from a Skaði cult, or otherwise is related to the goddess, but this is an uncertain theory - I would love to see some thorough work on this, though. So before inserting a paragraph about mere speculations, I would like to see the material on this first. --Skadinaujo (talk) 16:17, 16 May 2008 (UTC)