 Fechner explains the title of his work in his forward (Nanna: xi). He wanted a short and catchy name for his book. He first considered “Flora” and “Hamadryas”; but then he found the first too botanical and the second too archaic. Just the right name came from Uhland’s work on Nordic mythology (1836: 147–148). Nanna was the goddess of flowers, the wife of Baldur, the god of light. 