Earth Mother and Sky Father Painting

Jord is the Great Mother Goddess of Norse mythology. She is described in the Prose Edda as both a giantess and a member of the Aesir. Her name is pronounced like yard, and means land, soil, earth. The unit of measure is named after her. The Earth itself may also be named after her. From etymology online, “earth (n.) Old English eorþe "ground, soil, dirt, dry land; country, district," also used (along with middangeard) for "the (material) world, the abode of man" (as opposed to the heavens or the underworld), from Proto-Germanic *ertho (source also of Old Frisian erthe "earth," Old Saxon ertha, Old Norse jörð,… Nerthus was the Germanic version of Jord. Here we see the Earth Mother, Jord, with the Sky Father, Odin. Together they are the parents of the thunder god, Thor.