skaði, a jötunn and swedish goddess of winter athletics, is a gifted student of mathematics and philosophy.

i met skaði two summers before i left for djerba, at a little camp for prophets-in-training. one of the first things she said to me was you read nabokov too? though we've known each other only two weeks in person, separated by two disparate oceans, we have stayed penpals ever since.