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In
Norse mythology,
Jörð (or
Jarð in
Old East Norse;
Earth, sometimes Anglicized
Jord or
Jorth) is a giantess and the personification of the
Earth. She is identified with
Fjörgyn and
Hlôdyn (Bellinger 1997:235).
Jörð is one of
Odin's concubines and the mother of
Thor (
Gylfaginning 10, 36). She is the daughter of
Annar and
Nótt and sister of
Auð and
Dagr. Otherwise she's essentially unknown. In pre-Christian skaldic poetry recorded in Snorri Sturluson's
Skáldskaparmál, Jörð is called the rival of Odin's wife
Frigg and his other giantess concubines,
Rindr and
Gunnlod (Lindow 2001:205). Jörð is reckoned a goddess, like other giantesses who coupled with the gods (Orchard 1997:98). Jörð's name appears in skaldic poetry both as a poetic term for the land and in kennings for Thor.
Jörð is the everyday word for
earth in
Old Norse as are its descendants in the modern
Scandinavian languages (Icelandic:
jörð, Faroese:
jørð, Danish/Swedish/Norwegian:
jord). It is
cognate to English
earth.
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