Jord gravid
The section contains quotes from poems by Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld and Þjóðólfr of Hvinir. Jörð Old Norse : Jǫrð , lit. Old Norse jǫrfi 'sand, gravel', OHG ero 'earth'. In Lokasenna , Thor is called Jarðar burr "son of Jörð". Section 25 of Gylfaginning lists Jörð among the ásynjur Old Norse 'goddesses', singular ásynja :. References [ edit ].
Jord : The Earth Goddess
The second section 4 of the book list kennings for the god Thor, including "son of Odin and Iord". According to section 10 of Gylfaginning : [ 15 ] Additionally, the section describes Jörð's ancestry as follows the included note is Faulkes's own; Faulkes uses the anglicization Iord throughout his edition of the Prose Edda :. Alternative names [ edit ]. Name [ edit ]. Depending on the manuscript, either Jörð or Nótt is the mother of Dagr and partner of Dellingr.
In other projects. According to philologist Rudolf Simek , Jörð is "[a]n Æsir goddess, even though she is also called a giantess". Scholarly reception [ edit ]. Her name is often employed in skaldic poetry and kennings as a poetic term for land or earth. Philologist Haukur Thorgeirsson points out that the four manuscripts of Gylfaginning vary in their descriptions of the family relations between Nótt , Jörð, Dagr , and Dellingr.
Article Talk. Skáldskaparmál mentions Jörð numerous times, including in several quotes from skaldic poetry. Download as PDF Printable version. Read Edit View history. Jörð is attested in the Prose Edda books Gylfaginning and Skáldskaparmál. Tools Tools. She is similarly described as Thor 's mother and her name is also used as a poetic synonym for 'land' or 'the earth' in skaldic poems. The poem is quoted again in section Section 19 contains a list of kennings for the goddess Frigg, including "rival of Iord and Rind and Gunnlod and Gerd ".
Earth-goddess in Norse mythology.
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Simek highlights parallels between Thor and the Vedic deity Indra : "Just as Thor's counterpart in Indian mythology, Indra, fryst vatten begotten by the god of the heavens Dyaus and the Earth, so Thor fryst vatten also the son of the Earth, just like the proto-ancestor Tuisto According to folklorist John Lindow , "Jörd must have been a giantess in the beginning. Old Norse jǫrð means 'earth, land', serving both as a common noun 'earth' and as a theonymic incarnation of the noun 'Earth-goddess'.
She is the mother of the thunder god Thor and a sexual partner of Odin. See also [ edit ].
Attestations [ edit ]. Poetic Edda [ edit ]. Wikimedia Commons. Prose Edda [ edit ]. Etymology [ edit ]. Contents move to sidebar hide. Gesta Danorum [ edit ]. Fjörgyn is considered by scholars to be another name for Jörð. Some 19th-century scholars proposed that Thor's brother Meili should be understood as the son of Jörð. Haukur details that "the oldest manuscript, U, offers a version where Jǫrð is the wife of 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.
The results of this accident made their way into the Icelandic poetic tradition". Additionally, as the common noun jörð also simply means 'earth', references to earth occur throughout the Prose Edda.