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In Norse mythology, the sister-wife of Njörðr is the unnamed wife and sister of the god Njörðr, with whom he is described as having had the (likewise incestuous) twin children Freyr and Freyja. This shadowy goddess is attested in the ''Poetic Edda'' poem ''Lokasenna'', recorded in the 13th century by an unknown source, and the ''Heimskringla'' book ''Ynglinga saga'', a euhemerized account of the Norse gods composed by Snorri Sturluson also in the 13th century but based on earlier traditional material. The figure receives no further mention in Old Norse texts. The situation is further complicated in that narratives describing the birth of Freyr and Freyja contradictorily cite the birth of the siblings occurring either after or before Njörðr left Vanaheimr to live among the Æsir. In addition, the goddess Skaði is referred to as the mother of Freyr and Freyja in the ''Poetic Edda'' poem ''Skírnismál'' whereas otherwise she is a described as having been in an ill-fated relationship with Njörðr without direct association with the Freyr and Freyja. Much earlier, in his 1 CE work ''Germania'', Tacitus describes rituals surrounding a deity by the name of Nerthus, a theonym that is etymologically ancestral to Old Norse ''Njörðr''. However, the figure described by Tacitus is female. Based on this scholars have suggested a Proto-Germanic hermaphroditic deity or a gender aspectual pair (similar to Freyja and Freyr), identified the obscure Old Norse goddess name Njörun as a potential name for the otherwise unnamed goddess, and in some cases identified a potential reflex of a narrative about Njörðr and his sister-wife in Saxo Grammaticus's 12th-century work ''Gesta Danorum''. ==Textual background== In a euhemerized account of the gods in ''Ynglinga saga'' chapter 4, Snorri Sturluson characterizes Freyr and Freyja as the offspring of Njörðr by his unnamed sister, to whom he was married by Vanic custom: In the Eddic poem ''Lokasenna'', Loki also states that Njörðr had Freyr by his sister: In contrast, in the ''Gylfaginning'' section of his ''Prose Edda'', after telling the story of Njörðr's unhappy marriage to Skaði that occurred after he came to live among the Æsir, Snorri states that Freyr and Freyja were born after that; Freyr is also presented as the son of Njörðr and Skaði in the Eddic poem ''Skírnismál''.〔''Gylfaginning'' ch. 13 (24): "Njǫrðr í Nóatúnum gat síðan tvau bǫrn. Hét sonr Freyr en dóttir Freyja." In ''Skírnismál'' Skaði calls Freyr "our boy" (''okkarr mǫgr'': "okkarn mála mǫg", verse 1, line 3) and Skírnir responds referring to him as "son of you two" (''ykkarr sónr'': "at ykrom syni", verse 2, line 2); Dronke, p. 376.〕 However, in ''Ynglinga saga'' Freyr, and presumably Freyja, accompanies Njörðr when he comes to live with the Æsir as a hostage after the Æsir–Vanir War;〔''Ynglinga saga'', ch. 4.〕 and ''Lokasenna'' alludes to Freyja having been "surprised" in Vanic incest with her brother.〔''Lokasenna'' verse 32, Dronke, p. 340.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sister-wife of Njörðr」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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