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Njoerd
Legacy Name: Njoerd
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Glacier OntraOwner:
xMouseAge: 12 years, 3 weeks, 3 days
Born: April 24th, 2012
Adopted: 11 years, 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Adopted: June 18th, 2012
Statistics
- Level: 2
- Strength: 10
- Defense: 11
- Speed: 10
- Health: 12
- HP: 11/12
- Intelligence: 0
- Books Read: 0
- Food Eaten: 0
- Job: Stock Worker
In Norse mythology, Njörðr is a god among the Vanir. Njörðr is father of the deities Freyr and Freyja by his unnamed Van sister, was in an ill-fated marriage with the goddess Skaði, lives in Nóatún and is associated with sea, seafaring, wind, fishing, wealth, and crop fertility.
Njörðr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, in euhemerized form as a beloved mythological early king of Sweden in Heimskringla, also written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century, as one of three gods invoked in the 14th century Hauksbók ring oath, and in numerous Scandinavian place names. Veneration of Njörðr survived into 18th or 19th century Norwegian folk practice, where the god is recorded as Njor and thanked for a bountiful catch of fish.
Njörðr has been the subject of an amount of scholarly discourse and theory, often connecting him with the figure of the much earlier attested Germanic goddess Nerthus, the hero Hadingus, and theorizing on his formerly more prominent place in Norse paganism due to the appearance of his name in numerous place names. Njörðr is sometimes modernly anglicized as Njord, Njoerd, or Njorth. -wikipedia-