sentences:  Her name is often employed in skaldic poetry and kennings as a poetic term for land or earth.The Old Norse name "jǫrð" means 'earth, land' in Old Norse, serving as a noun ('earth') and as a theonymic incarnation of the noun ('Earth-goddess').It stems from Proto-Germanic "*erþō"- ('earth, soil, land'), as evidenced by the Gothic "airþa", Old English "eorþ", Old Saxon "ertha", Old High German (OHG) "erda", or Faroese "jørð".