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View Name: Nerthus


NERTHUS

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Germanic Mythology

Latinized form of Nerþuz, the Germanic (feminine) equivalent of Njörðr (see NJORD). Nerthus was a Norse goddess of fertility as described by the Roman historian Tacitus in the 1st century.


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