Gerðr
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thumb|''Skirnir's Message to Gerd'' (1908) by W. G. Collingwood.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- goddess
- Part of
- Ásynjur
- Gender
- female
- Spouse
- Freyr
- Child
- Fjölnir
- Father
- Gymir
- Mother
- Aurboða
- Image
- Skirnir wirbt um Gerda.jpg
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- member of
- Jötnar
- Commons category
- Gerðr
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- name in kana
- ゲルド
- different from
- Gerda
- present in work
- Hyndluljóð
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Attestations
- ''Poetic Edda''
- Threats
- ''Prose Edda''
- ''Heimskringla''
- Archaeological record
- Theories
- "Rival of Frigg"
- Earth and fertility
- Modern influence
- Notes
- References
thumb|''Skirnir's Message to Gerd (1908) by W. G. Collingwood.
In Norse mythology, Gerðr (Old Norse: ; "fenced-in") is a jötunn, goddess, and the wife of the god Freyr. Gerðr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources; the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; and in the poetry of skalds. Gerðr is sometimes modernly anglicized as Gerd or Gerth.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gerðr” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.