I am Njord, God of the Seas, Fishing, Wind and Wealth-Bestowed (Prosperity). While I am a Vanir, I live in Asgard among the Aesir.
Before I lived in Asgard, I was married to my sister, and we had two children Freyr and Freyja. As the Aesir frown upon sibling marriages, my sister and I separated.
This is how I became one of the gods available for Skadi to choose as a mate as compensation for her father's death at the hands of the Asgardians.
As Skadi was forced to choose her husband sight unseen, except by the look of the feet of the god candidates. And she chose me, one of the oldest of the gods.
It would have been a happy marriage except for the fact that I love the Sea and she loves her father's home in the mountains, Prymheir.
To please each of us, we agreed to live for nine months in the mountains and then nine months at the sea.
But happiness between us was not to be, for the longing for our respective homes was too strong. We separated; Skadi returned to her beloved mountains and I to the seas. Well, Skadi was beautiful, but my love, my life is the sea...
Njord is a plastic piece I painted this week.
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