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jörð

Jörð, Old Norse for "earth," is a goddess in Norse mythology who personifies the earth. She is typically treated as a divine being associated with the ground and natural fertility, and is considered one of the Æsir's consorts in many sources.

Most often, Jörð is described as the mother of the thunder god Thor, with Odin as her

Jörð appears in both the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, where she is part of the cosmology

Her name in Old Norse literally means "earth" or "soil," reflecting her function as the earth itself.

See also: Earth in Norse mythology, Thor, Odin.

father.
This
parentage
is
stated
in
the
Prose
Edda.
Some
variant
traditions,
especially
in
nineteenth-century
scholarship,
attempt
to
place
her
as
the
daughter
of
Nótt
or
other
figures,
but
these
are
not
as
widely
attested.
of
Midgard
and
the
broader
family
of
gods.
While
she
lacks
a
large
body
of
mythic
narratives
of
her
own,
she
is
used
symbolically
to
denote
the
earth
as
a
living,
personified
force
and
is
connected
with
agricultural
fertility
and
the
natural
world.
In
modern
Icelandic
and
Norse-inspired
contexts,
Jörð
is
still
recognized
as
the
Earth
goddess
and
is
sometimes
equated
with
Gaia-like
concepts
in
comparative
mythology.