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SifFrom Panthaeon.Org
The golden-haired wife of the god Thor. There is not much known about her, except that she could originally have been a fertility goddess. Neither does she appear often in the myths.
The best know myth, however, is when Loki the Trickster sneaked into Sif's bedroom and lopped off her hair. Furious, Thor threatened to smash him unless Loki managed to replace the hair. He went to a great cave, the home of the sons of Ivaldi, and told them the reason of his journey. He then asked the dwarfs to spin gold as fine as Sif's hair and imbue it with magic that it will grow on her head. The dwarfs agreed and made a long wave of fine golden strands, which Loki gave to Sif.
Norse deity #2.
Sif was always one of my favorites. I think I may go back a little and add some finer details to these, but for the most part I never saw the Norse deities as people who would *over-dress*. Viking people being gruff and oft times barbaric, I have a hard time seeing them adorning themselves in an abundance of finery. a torc here, an arm band there...but not much...
Maybe that's just me...but if I add anything it will be a touch of knotwork along the hem of their clothes, or perhaps runes, but not mush else...
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Loki wasn't painted to be truly evil until after the christians came around....their influence is also what spawned the myth of Ragnarok, as it didn't exist in earlier nordic myths. Loki was a trickster, yes, and a generally unrepentant one, but he also tended to make right what he screwed up, if only to keep the other gods from beating the hell out of him. Anyway. On to the point....I find it interesting...I see the wife but not the husband....where is Thor? You're missing the primary deities, here, sis....Odin, Freyja, Thor, Sif....come on now. Time to pick this project back up and finish it. Along with my portraits, of course. 
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These actually started as a request from someone to do one and moved to me going a few more...Just need the time to sit down, finish all the other crap on my plate and start the next course
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NO! USE MORE PLATES! BWAHAHAHAHA! sorry, reflex.
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3D character art commissions available? Are you serious? That's awesome. Can you do one?
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sure 
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Actually what Loki did was , as a trick on Thor for having the most beautiful wife ever (jealous of Thor, he was. Greatly.) So he waited till they were asleep and set her hair on fire with a magical fire so she didn't feel it. And in the morning - SURPRISE! No hair. She wept all day until Thor figured it out and damn near killed Loki for it, but he couldn't because (you guessed it) Loki was Odin's blood brother and no harm could come to him.
So, when it was brought to Odin's attention, he forced Loki to go to the dwarves and finagle them into making Sif hair out of true spun gold and to enchant it so that it would grow back just as it was on her head. (They also made a gold arm ring for Odin as a lagniappe...appeasing him, y'know.)
And Thor never forgot it. He remained pissed at Loki until Ragnarok for that one.
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yeah, there's a couple different version of how Loki cut her hair off
*shrug*
Sounds more like Hera to me than Freya though, lol. Someone must have been reading a few too many Greek myths and gotten confused
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lmao. Personally I think that site made Loki a bit too much like he was sorry. He really wasn't. He just didn't want to get his ass kicked by Thor. XD
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