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Gerd - Goddess of Ferility
Gerd (Gerdr) ("fenced-in") is the wife of Freyr and a goddess of fertility. She is the personification of the fertile soil. She is described as 'the most beautiful of all women'. She is the daughter of Gymir and Aurboda.
In myths Freyr went to Hlidskjalf and looked over all worlds, to the north he saw Gerdr and at once becomes deeply lovesick at the sight of her shimmering beauty. He sends his servant, Skimir, to gain her love. At first Gerdr refuses to meet with Freyr, but eventually agrees to meet him at Barri where they consummate their union.
"From Gymir's house I behold forth
A maiden dear to me;
Her arms glittered, and from their gleam
Shone all the sea and sky."
"To me more dear than in days of old
Was ever maiden to man;
But no one of gods or elves will grant
That we be together should be."[3]
—Henry Adams Bellows translation:
Barri the grove is named,
which we both know,
the grove of tranquil paths.
Nine nights hence,
there to Niörd’s son
Gerd will grant delight.
—För Skirnis eðr Skirnismál (39), Thorpe's translation
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Area of Influence:
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Norse
Jotunheimr
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Norse - Gods and Goddesses
Name | Title | Type |
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God of the ocean. | God | |
Fairest of the Gods | God | |
Father of the Frost Giants. | God | |
Mother Goddess. | Goddess | |
Creator God. | God | |
God of poets and skaldi. | God | |
Creator God. | God | |
Water Goddess | Goddess | |
The personification of day. | God | |
God of the Dawn. | God | |
Goddess of healing. | Goddess | |
God of justice who settles court disputes in his gilded hall. | God | |
Goddess of love, beauty and sensuality. | Goddess | |
God of fertility, sun and rain. | God | |
Wife of Odin and the goddess of marriage and fertility. | Goddess | |
Goddess of agriculture. | Goddess | |
Goddess of Ferility | Goddess | |
God of light and protection. | God | |
Goddess of death. | Goddess | |
The messenger of the gods. | God | |
Blind god of darkness and winter. | God | |
Goddess of the spring and eternal youth. | Goddess | |
Goddess of the primitive and unpopulated earth. | Goddess | |
The wisest of the Vanir gods. | God | |
Goddess of forbidden love, who blesses all illicit love affairs. | Goddess | |
Trickster god of the Norse. | God | |
Son of Thor and god of brute strength. | God | |
God of the moon | God | |
Minor forest god. | God | |
God of knowledge and wisdom. | God | |
Norse Goddess | Goddess | |
God of the sea, wind and fire. | God | |
The triple goddesses of fate and destiny. | Goddess | |
Goddess of night. | Goddess | |
God of war. | God | |
Goddess of storms and the drowned dead. | Goddess | |
God of metalworkers and craftsmen. | God | |
Creator God. | God | |
Goddess of poetry and history. | Goddess | |
Goddess of the earth. | Goddess | |
Goddess of love, passion and marital harmony. | Goddess | |
Goddess of Bowhunting. | Goddess | |
Goddess of the sun. | Goddess | |
Goddess of watchfulness and truth. | Goddess | |
Thunder-god and the protector of men and gods. | God | |
God of Law. | God | |
God of justice and duelling, archery and skiing. | God | |
Son of Odin | God | |
The battle-maidens. | Goddess | |
Goddess of contracts and oaths. | Goddess | |
Creator God. | God | |
Son of Odin and the god of silence and vengeance. | God | |
Creator God. | God | |
Goddess of Bounty and Fertility. | Goddess | |
Primordial God. | God |
Bibliography
- The Witches God - Janet and Stewart Farrar
- The Witches Goddess - Janet and Stewart Farrar
- A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses - George Hart
- Celtic Goddesses - Miranda Green
- Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia - Jeremy Black and Anthony Green
- Maori Religion and Mythology - Edward Shortland
- The Greek Myths - Robert Graves
- Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines, 2-Volume Set - Patricia Monaghan
- Asgard and the Gods: The Tales and Traditions of Our Northern Ancestors - Wilhelm Wägner Macdovvall
- The Mythology of all Races - Vol 1-12 - Louis H Gray
- The Ancient Gods Speak - Edited by Donald B Redford
- The Pyramid Texts - Faulkner
- Aradia, Gospel of the Witches - Charles G. Leland
- Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas - H. A. Guerber
- The Theogony of Hesiod - translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White 1914
- Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities, 2-Volume Set - Charles Russell Coulter and Patricia Turner
- Wikipedia
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