Or perhaps he was concerned that his wife would be shamed for having short hair. I’d like to think that Thor cared for his wife, and her distress over the loss of her hair was what made him so angry. All we have is what happened when Thor discovered that his wife’s hair had been shorn by Loki. To prove how inconsequential poor Sif is in the mythological stories, we do not know what her reaction was to this awful prank. Of course, the trickster god Loki had to mess with it!Īs a prank, Loki cut off Sif’s golden locks. Golden Hairīy far Sif’s most famous attribute is her golden hair, which was long and glorious. Unlike the einvigi, a holmgang ended at the first blood drawn. A special place was marked out of the ground, ropes surrounded the dueling field, and duelers even had a second to give them fresh shields. An einvigi was an unregulated fight that typically ended in death, while the holmgang was a highly regulated and formal duel. One way to ease the back-and-forth nature of killing that occurred during a blood feud was to have men meet each other in single combat, either an einvigi or a holmgang.
In Norse culture, blood feuds were a common issue and they could last for generations.
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