sentences:  "Gerðr" is sometimes modernly anglicized as Gerd or Gerth.In both the "Poetic Edda" and the "Prose Edda", Freyr sees Gerðr from a distance, becomes deeply lovesick at the sight of her shimmering beauty, and has his servant Skírnir go to Jötunheimr (where Gerðr and her father Gymir reside) to gain her love.In the "Poetic Edda" Gerðr initially refuses, yet after a series of threats by Skírnir she is forced to yield.