Sif’s Family Tree

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Family

• Thor(spouse),Thrud(child)— Marriage

  Thor and Sif are married, and their daughter Þrúðr ('strength') is listed among the valkyries in the Prose Edda.

• Ullr(child)

  Sif bore Ullr before her marriage to Thor, making Ullr Thor's stepson and a member of the Æsir household, though his biological father goes unnamed in surviving sources.

Member of

• Aesir

  The Æsir are the principal tribe of Norse gods who dwell in Asgard, including both native members and Vanir hostages received after the Æsir-Vanir War, as catalogued in Gylfaginning.

Associated with

• Bilskirnir

  Sif dwells with Thor in Bilskirnir, the greatest of all halls with its five hundred and forty rooms, raised in Thrúðvangar where the thunder god makes his home.

• Loki

  Loki cut off Sif's golden hair as a prank. To appease Thor's fury, Loki commissioned the dwarven Sons of Ívaldi to forge new hair of real gold for Sif, along with other treasures for the gods.

• Thor

  In the Lokasenna, Loki accuses Sif of taking a lover, and Thor arrives to silence the trickster with threats of Mjölnir, the only force that can end Loki's flyting.