Definition of Sigyn

1. Noun. (Norse mythology) wife of Loki; held a cup over him during his punishment to spare him the pain of drops of poison.

Category relationships: Norse Mythology
Generic synonyms: Norse Deity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sigyn

Sieur de LaSalle
Sievert
Sif
Sigaultian
Siggaard-Andersen nomogram
Sigmodon
Sigmodon hispidus
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Romberg
Signe
Signorelli's sign
Sigourney
Sigrid
Sigrid Undset
Sigurd
Sigyn
Siha
Siirt
Sikar
Sikh
Sikhism
Sikhs
Sikkim
Sikorsky
Silas
Silastic
Sile
Silene acaulis
Silene caroliniana
Silene dioica

Literary usage of Sigyn

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Asgard and the Gods: The Tales and Traditions of Our Northern Ancestors by Wilhelm Wägner (1884)
"Then his two sons, Wali and Narwi, were brought to him, followed by their weeping mother, sigyn. Wali was changed into a fierce wolf, and he immediately ..."

2. The Runes, Whence Came They by George Stephens (1894)
"But in another English 7th century slab we see sigyn with her Cup. This is on the famous Gosforth Cross, a slab, 14 feet high, which has escaped the perils ..."

3. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1892)
"A serpent was suspended over him in such a manner that the venom fell into Loke 's face drop hy drop. lint sigyn, Luke's wife, took pity on him. ..."

4. Asgard and the gods, tales and traditions of our Northern ancestors, adapted by Maria Wilhelmina Macdowall (1884)
"Then his two sons, Wali and Narwi, were brought to him, followed by their weeping mother, sigyn. Wali was changed into a fierce wolf, and he immediately ..."

5. The Home of the Eddic Poems: With Especial Reference to the Helgi-lays by Sophus Bugge (1899)
"She saw a fettered man lie, like unto Loki in appearance ; there sigyn sits ... 1 In Gylfaginning we are told that Loki's wife sigyn sits beside him and ..."

6. The Home of the Eddic Poems: With Especial Reference to the Helgi-lays by Sophus Bugge (1899)
"She saw a fettered man lie, like unto Loki in appearance ; there sigyn sits ... l In Gylfaginning we are told that Loki's wife sigyn sits beside him and ..."

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