sentences:  Lindow adds that, at the same time, the situation can be read as simply the gods getting what they want from the jötnar.Hilda Ellis Davidson comments that Gerðr's role in "Skírnismál" has parallels with the goddess Persephone from Greek mythology, "since it is made clear that if [Gerðr] remains below in the dark kingdom of the underworld there will be nothing to hope for but sterility and famine.She does not become the bride of the underworld, however; her bridal is to be in the upper world when she consents to meet Freyr at Barri."