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Later identified with Norse Njord
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nerthus
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Nerthus \Nerthus\ prop. n. The Teutonic goddess of fertility; later identified with Norse Njord. Syn: Hertha.
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In Germanic paganism , Nerthus is a goddess associated with fertility . Nerthus is attested by Tacitus , the first century AD Roman historian, in his ethnographic work Germania . In Germania , Tacitus records that the remote Suebi tribes were united by ...
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Three theories have been put forward to account for the difference in sex between Nerthus and Njord: the first, which is the stranger but the more widely accepted is that a change in grammatical gender in nouns brought about the change in sex in the divinity.