Nerthus


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Noun1.Nerthus - the Teutonic goddess of fertility; later identified with Norse Njord
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Anoto Group AB (STO:ANOT), a provider of digital writing and drawing solutions, reported on Thursday that Nerthus Investments Limited, a major shareholder of the company, representing approximately 9% of the total number of shares in Anoto Group, has in the notice to the Extraordinary General Meeting submitted a proposal to elect new members to the board of directors.
These data have been retrieved from the lexical database of Old English Nerthus, which is based on the dictionaries by Henry Sweet (1987), Joseph Bosworth and Thomas N.
Isis, Mawu-Lisa, Demeter, Gaia, Shakti, Dakinis, Shekhinah, Astarte, Ishtar, Rhea, Freya, Nerthus, Brigid, Danu--call Her what you may--[the 'Great Mother in her many aspects'] has been with us from the beginning and awaits us now.
We have devised a methodology that consists of the following steps: (i) the retrieval of all records of strong verbs from the lexical database of Old English Nerthus (www.nerthusproject.com); (6) (ii) the identification of all inflectional forms of strong verbs relevant for derivational morphology; (iii) the isolation of basic strong verbs; (iv) the compilation of derivational paradigms; (v) the identification of the vocalic contrasts holding in derivation; (vi) the classification of the contrasts based on ablaut; and (vii) the distinction of phonologically motivated alternations from instances of allomorphic variation.
Njar[eth], and before her, Nerthus. We carry a jar in the shape of a woman carrying a jar .
(2) The poem Bogland appears in the collection Door Into The Dark (1969); The Tollund Man and Nerthus in Wintering Out (1972); Belderg, Bog Queen, The Grauballe Man, Punishment, Come to the Bower, Strange Fruit and Kinship in North (1975).
poems in Wintering Out such as "Broagh," "Nerthus,"
158: "'Hertha' is the Germanic name for 'Mother Earth,' the Terra mater Nerthus of which Tacitus in chapter 40 of his Germania reports ..."
Among the archaeological motifs explored by McHale are the bog bodies that figure in Seamus Heaney's late modernist sequence of eight "bog poems" to be found in Wintering Out ("The Tollund Man" [47-48] and "Nerthus" [49-50]) and North ("Come to the Bower" [31], "Bog Queen" [32-34], "The Grauballe Man" [35-36], "Punishment" [37-38], "Kinship" [39] and "Strange Fruit" [40-45]).
Within this religion the main figure, he believes, was that of Ingui, whom he sees as simultaneously the human incarnation of the god Nerthus, the patron of the Ingvaeones, and the ancestor-figure of Anglian royal families.