Introduction
Jord ("earth"), also called Fjorgyn, is a giantess and the personification of the earth itself, one of Odin's consorts and, by him, the mother of Thor, the god of thunder.
Family
Personification of earth
As the physical earth given divine, personal form, Jord represents a very old layer of Germanic religious thought, the sacred ground beneath human life, paired here with Odin, the sky-father figure, in a pattern recognisable across many mythological traditions.
Mother of Thor
Jord's most significant role in the surviving sources is as the mother of Thor, whose epithets in Old Norse poetry, including "son of Jord" (Jarðar burr), directly reflect this maternal connection to the earth itself. Beyond this, Jord has little independent narrative in the surviving Eddic material.