Jörð
Jörð is a gýgjar (jötunn woman) in Old Nordic mythology. She marries Odin and mothers Thor with him.
↻ synthesized from 5 sources
When
- First attested
- 500 CE
- Attested period
- 500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Documented in Old Nordic mythology.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Gerð, Ægir, Vafþrúðnir, Hyndla, Litavis, Plátaia, Pṛth(i)vī, Frigg, Fulla, Lofn, Hlín, Gná, Baldr, Nótt, Æsir, jötnar, Loki
- aspect of
- *Dʰéǵʰōm
- manifests as
- Fold
- has aspect
- Fold
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Many Æsir also marry and have children with gýgjar (jötunn women) such as Odin, who marries Jörð and fathers Thor with her”
#2793 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“and Norse Fold (a name of Jörð).”
#26782 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“she is also associated with the goddesses Lofn, Hlín, Gná, and ambiguously with the Earth, otherwise personified as an apparently separate entity Jörð (Old Norse: 'Earth').”
#27359 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Some 19th-century scholars proposed that he should also be understood as having the same mother as Thor, Jörð, a goddess and the personified Earth.”
#41012 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Jǫrð is married to Dellingr and the mother of Dagr while the other manuscripts, R, W and T, cast Nótt in the role of Dellingr's wife and Dagr's mother", and argues that "the version in U came about accidentally when the writer of U or its antecedent shortened a text similar to that in RWT”
#41137 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001