Járnsaxa
Template:Short description Template:For Template:Infobox character Járnsaxa (Template:IPAc-en; Old Norse: {{#invoke:IPA|main}}; means: "iron dagger") is a jötunn in Norse mythology. In Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, she is portrayed as the lover of Thor, the mother of Magni and the possible mother of Móði.Template:Sfn
Name
The Old Norse name Járnsaxa has been translated as 'iron dagger',Template:Sfn or 'armed with an iron sword'.Template:Sfn
Attestations
In Hyndluljóð, Járnsaxa is named as one of the Nine Mothers of Heimdallr.Template:Sfn
In Skáldskaparmál, Thor's wife the goddess Sif is either herself called "Járnsaxa" or called by a kenning meaning "the rival of Járnsaxa",Template:Sfn throwing confusion on whether Sif is or is not distinct from Járnsaxa the mother of Magni.Template:Sfn At the end of the story, Odin argues that Thor did wrong to offer the splendid horse Gullfaxi to Magni, the son of a giantess, rather than to himself, the father of Thor.Template:Sfn