Editing Laufey (mythology) (section)

==Attestations==
In ''[[Gylfaginning]]'' ('The Beguiling of [[Gylfi]]'), [[Hár and Hárr|High]] introduces Loki as the son of [[Fárbauti]], that "Laufey or Nál" is his mother, and that his brothers are [[Býleistr]] and [[Helblindi]].{{sfn|Faulkes|1987|p=26}} Elsewhere in the same poem, Loki is referred to by the [[matronymic]] ''Laufeyson'' ('Laufey's son').{{sfn|Faulkes|1987|p=35}} This occurs twice more in ''Gylfaginning'' and once in ''Skáldskaparmál''.{{sfn|Faulkes|1987|pp=48, 50, & 96}}

''[[Skáldskaparmál|Skaldskaparmal]]'' ('The Language of Poetry') mentions Loki as 'son of Fárbauti' or 'son of Laufey'.{{sfn|Faulkes|1987|p=76}}

Laufey is listed among Ásynjar (goddesses) in one of the ''[[þulur]]'',[https://skaldic.abdn.ac.uk/m.php?p=text&i=3242] an ancestry that perhaps led her son Loki to be "enumerated among the [[Æsir]]", as [[Snorri Sturluson]] puts it in ''Gylfaginning''.{{Sfn|Lindow|2001|p=208}}

''Nál'' is mentioned twice in the [[Prose Edda]] as "Laufey or Nál"; once in ''Gylfaginning'' and once in ''Skáldskaparmál''.{{sfn|Faulkes|1987|pp=26, 76}}

In the poem ''[[Sörla þáttr|Sörla tháttr]]'', Nál and Laufey are portrayed as the same person: "She was both slender and weak, and for that reason she was called Nál [Needle]."<ref>''bæði mjó ok auðþreiflig'', ed. Carl Christian Rafn, ''Fornaldar Sögur Norðrlanda'' Volume 1, Copenhagen, 1829, [https://books.google.com/books?id=hJQrAAAAMAAJ&q=Laufey&pg=PA391 p. 392].</ref> According to scholar [[John Lindow]], however, "the late date of the text makes this piece of information suspect."{{Sfn|Lindow|2001|p=208}}