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  • That has much to do with you, Sigyn; thank you on behalf of my sanity.

    Why I Began the End Megan Arkenberg 2009

  • That has much to do with you, Sigyn; thank you on behalf of my sanity.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Megan Arkenberg 2009

  • Sigyn, Loki's wife, sat there and held a cup under the poison.

    The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 L. Winifred Faraday

  • His wife, Sigyn, could not bear to see her husband in such agony, so she took her stand beside him, cup in hand, and caught the poison as it fell.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • "Loke" appears as Utgard-Loke, Loke of the skirts of the World, as it were; is treated as a venomous giant bound in agony under a serpent-haunted cavern (no mention is made of "Sigyn" or her pious ministry).

    The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

  • In another chapter, Snorri adds Idunn, Gerd, Sigyn and Nanna, of whom the latter does not appear in the Elder Edda, where Idunn, Gerd (a giantess) and Sigyn are the wives of Bragi, Frey and Loki; and two others, the giantess Skadi and Sif, are the wives of Njörd and Thor.

    The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 L. Winifred Faraday

  • Sigyn lolled out her tongue and her white teeth grinned at him in answer.

    Space Prison Tom Godwin 1947

  • Fenrir and Sigyn looked from the advancing Gerns to him with question in their eyes after Lake and Craig were gone, Fenrir growling restlessly.

    Space Prison Tom Godwin 1947

  • He ran to where the others would be gathering, Fenrir and Sigyn loping beside him and the horn ringing wild and savage and triumphant as it announced the end of two centuries of waiting.

    Space Prison Tom Godwin 1947

  • Fenrir and Sigyn were still obediently inside the doorway, almost frantic with desire to rejoin him.

    Space Prison Tom Godwin 1947

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