- Sjöfn
Sjöfn is one of the Ásynjur in
Norse mythology . She is mentioned briefly inSnorri Sturluson 'sProse Edda .:"Sjaunda er Sjöfn, hon gætir mjök til at snúa hugum manna til ásta, kvenna ok karla, ok af hennar nafni er elskuginn kallaðr sjafni." [http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/gg/gg4par33.html]
:"The seventh [of the Ásynjur] is Sjöfn. She endeavours to turn the minds of people to love, both those of women and men, and from her name a lover is called "sjafni"."
The name Sjöfn is not mentioned again in the Prose Edda and occurs nowhere in the
Poetic Edda . It does occur a few times inkenning s as a generic goddess name (e.g. "Sjöfn seims" means "Sjöfn of gold", i.e. "woman"). It is unclear whether Sjöfn was ever a major goddess. It is possible that, unknown to Snorri, she was simply another name forFreyja .References
* Eysteinn Björnsson (ed.). "Snorra-Edda: Formáli & Gylfaginning : Textar fjögurra meginhandrita". 2005. http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/gg/
* Finnur Jónsson. "Lexicon Poeticum". 1931. S. L. Møllers Bogtrykkeri, København.
* Simek, Rudolf. "Dictionary of Northern Mythology". 1993. Trans. Angela Hall. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. ISBN 0859913694. New edition 2000, ISBN 0859915131.
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