(Hlödin) Old Icelandic goddess of the earth and of fertility: one tradition makes her the mother of → Thor, a role allotted in other traditions to → Fjörgyn. There is probably a connection here, both etymological and semantic,...

(Old Icelandic=earth) North Germanic goddess. In the Edda, Snorri describes her as at once the daughter and the wife of → Odin. Like → Fjörgyn, she is supposed to be the mother of →...

In Norse mythology, Jörð (or Jarð in Old East Norse; Earth, sometimes Anglicized Jord or Jorth) is a goddess and the personification of the Earth. She is identified with Fjörgyn and Hlôdyn (Bellinger 1997:235). Jörð is one of Odin's spouses and...