Because of Freya's entrapment in Midgard due to Odin's curses, Njörd likely hasn't seen his daughter in many years.Īt some point after the war, during Odin's harrying of the giants a village north of the Lake of Nine that housed a shrine to Njörd was destroyed when the colossal body of Thamur (upon being struck by Thor) fell onto his own chisel his Frost Giant physiology coating the whole landscape in ice upon death. Though peace was brokered and Aesir-Vanir relations became more amicable as a result, the Vanir never forgave Freya for what they viewed as a betrayal of her people and refused to accept her back. After many centuries of bloodshed, the war came to an end, but at the added cost of his daughter Freya, now lost in marriage to Odin hated chief of the Aesir gods. Njörd, as a Vanir patriarch, took part in the Aesir-Vanir War alongside the rest of his kin, though little is known of what he did. Njörðr is sometimes modernly anglicized as Njord, Nord, Njoerd, or Njorth. Njörðr has been the subject of an amount of scholarly discourse and theory, often connecting him with the figure of the much earlier attested Germanic goddess Nerthus, the hero Hadingus, and theorizing on his formerly more prominent place in Norse paganism due to the appearance of his name in numerous place names. Veneration of Njörðr survived into 18th or 19th century Norwegian folk practice, where the god is recorded as Njor and thanked for a bountiful catch of fish. Njörðr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, in euhemerized form as a beloved mythological early king of Sweden in Heimskringla, also written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century, as one of three gods invoked in the 14th century Hauksbók ring oath, and in numerous Scandinavian place names. Njörðr, father of the deities Freyr and Freyja by his unnamed sister, was in an ill-fated marriage with the goddess Skaði, lives in Nóatún and is associated with the sea, seafaring, wind, fishing, wealth, and crop fertility. In Norse mythology, Njörðr is a god among the Vanir.

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