Editing Sinmara (section)

==Theories==

[[Henry Adams Bellows (businessman)|Henry Adams Bellows]] comments that Sinmara is "presumably Surt's wife".{{sfnp|Bellows|1923|p=243}} In the theories of [[Viktor Rydberg]], Sinmara is the wife of [[Mímir]], the mother of [[Nótt]], [[Böðvildr]], "and other night [[dís]]ir". According to Rydberg, the byname ''Sinmara'' refers to "Mímir-[[Niðhad]]"'s "queen ordering [[Wayland Smith|Völund]]'s hamstrings to be cut".{{sfnp|Rydberg|2003|p=196}}

[[Hjalmar Falk]] states that "Sinmara [...] is probably no other than [[Hel (being)|Hel]], [[Loki]]'s daughter." He says that Sinmara is specifically called ''hin fölva gýgr'' "the pale giantess" in ''Fjölsvinnsmál'',{{sfnp|Thorpe|1907|p=99}} just as the classical Roman poet [[Virgil]] speaks of the pale [[Orcus]], a god of the underworld in [[Roman mythology]], and that Hel is blue or half blue and half light, like the Roman goddess [[Proserpina]], whom [[Saxo Grammaticus|Saxo]] equates to Hel in his ''[[Gesta Danorum]]''. Falk further notes that Sinmara is referred to as ''aurglasis Eirr'', which he translates as "the goddess of the gold ring", and compares Hel's being called ''Gjallar sunnu gátt'' "wearer of the necklace" in stanza 9 of the poem ''[[Forspjallsljóð]]''.{{sfnp|Falk|1894|p=61}} Björn Olsen associates the kenning with ''veðurglasir'', a name of [[Yggdrasill]] in stanza 24 of the same poem, and translates ''aurglasir'' as a name for the root system of the world-tree.