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HERTHA, or Nerthus, in Teutonic mythology, the goddess of fertility, “Mother Earth.”

The plan of the camp shows it; close beside the Nerthus pine, above the altar stones of the Idise, they have pitched a tent filled with provisions and weapons.

Nerthus’s car bathed in the, 58 Scourge of God.

As with Freya, an image of the goddess Nerthus was drawn through the land in spring, to announce peace and fertility to mortals.

Then Page 24their places were usurped by Frey and Freyja, who were possibly created out of epithets originally applied to the older pair; Njörd was retained with lessened importance, Nerthus passed out altogether.