  in norse mythology, sigyn (old norse "victorious girl-friend"orchard (1997:146).) is a goddess and is the wife of loki. sigyn is attested in the poetic edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the prose edda, written in the 13th century by snorri sturluson. in the poetic edda, little information is provided about sigyn other than her role in assisting loki during his captivity. in the prose edda, her role in helping her husband through his time spent in bondage is stated again, she appears in various kennings, and her status as a goddess is mentioned twice. sigyn may appear on the gosforth cross and has been the subject of an amount of theory and cultural references. ==attestations== thumb|left|sigyn loki's wife - illustration by harry george theaker for children's stories from the northern legends by m. dorothy belgrave and hilda hart, 1920  sigyn is attested in the following works: ===poetic edda=== in stanza 35 of the poetic edda poem vÃ¶luspÃ¡, a vÃ¶lva tells odin that, amongst many other things, she sees sigyn sitting very unhappily with her bound husband, loki, under a "grove of hot springs".larrington (1998:8). sigyn is mentioned a second (and final) time in the ending prose section of the poem lokasenna. in the prose, loki has been bound by the gods with the guts of his son nari, his son vÃ¡li is described as having been turned into a wolf, and the goddess skaÃ°i fastens a venomous snake over loki's face, from which venom drips. sigyn, again described as loki's wife, holds a basin under the dripping venom. the basin grows full, and she pulls it away, during which time venom drops on loki, causing him to writhe so violently that earthquakes occur that shake the entire earth.larrington (1998:95-96). ===prose edda===  sigyn appears in the books gylfaginning and skÃ¡ldskaparmÃ¡l in the prose edda. in gylfaginning, sigyn is introduced in chapter 31. there, she is introduced as the wife of loki, and that they have a son by the name of "nari or narfi".byock (2006:31). sigyn is mentioned again in gylfaginning in chapter 50, where events are described differently than in lokasenna. here, the gods have captured loki and his two sons, who are stated as vÃ¡li, described as a son of loki, and "nari or narf
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