Lazyweb: Women Abducted to the Otherworld?

[qos]

I'm making a list of female figures in myth and lore who are abducted to the underworld or faery, and/or are abducted as symbols of sovereignty. Can anyone help me add names?


Ereshkigal
Persephone
Guinevere
Creiddylad

Comments

[upasaka.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of Odin's "conquests" fall into the later category. Rind, the Jotun who is seduced by Odin in order to produce a hero who will avenge Baldr's death, comes to mind, although perhaps she was not exactly abducted. And Freyr's wife Gerðr, while "wooed" rather than abducted, is definitely connected with Jotun sovereignty and the appropriation of it by the Aesir and Vanir.

[shadowandstar.livejournal.com]

Thanks!