" Earth ". Asa or giant goddess.
Jord designates either a giantess or a goddess loved by Odinn, Thôrr being the son of their union. Another tradition would make her the descendant of the Night. We can see in her one of the figures of the Goddess-Mother, as indicated by many of her nicknames Fjörgyn, "Who promotes life", sexually imprecise since the word also exists in the masculine form Fjörgynn, and refers to the primitive androgyne; Fold or Grund, which designate the ground; Hlôdyn, which refers to the continental Germanic “mother” Hludana, with the idea of hiding, covering. It could also duplicate the Nerthus become Njôrdr of which Tacitus speaks in the Germania.
The cult that may have been dedicated to him corresponds well to peoples who venerated the great natural forces. On the other hand, making the Earth the mother of the gods is a commonplace idea in the Indo-European domain.