Nerthus

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Gender Feminine
Usage Germanic Mythology (Latinized)

Meaning & History

Latinized form of Germanic *Nerþuz, which is also the root of the Old Norse god's name Njǫrðr (see Njord). Nerthus was a Germanic goddess of fertility as described by the Roman historian Tacitus in the 1st century.