Gerðr

Also known as Gerd

thumb|''Skirnir's Message to Gerd'' (1908) by W. G. Collingwood.

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Attestations
''Poetic Edda''
Threats
''Prose Edda''
''Heimskringla''
Archaeological record
Theories
"Rival of Frigg"
Earth and fertility
Modern influence
Notes
References

thumb|''Skirnir's Message to Gerd (1908) by W. G. Collingwood.

In Norse mythology, Gerðr (Old Norse: ; "fenced-in") is a jötunn, goddess, and the wife of the god Freyr. Gerðr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources; the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; and in the poetry of skalds. Gerðr is sometimes modernly anglicized as Gerd or Gerth.