Editing Jörð (section)

== Scholarly reception ==
According to philologist [[Rudolf Simek]], Jörð is "[a]n Æsir goddess, even though she is also called a giantess". Simek highlights parallels between Thor and the [[Vedas|Vedic]] deity [[Indra]]: "Just as Thor's counterpart in Indian mythology, Indra, is begotten by the god of the heavens [[Dyaus]] and the Earth, so Thor is also the son of the Earth, just like the proto-ancestor [[Tuisto]] ... ".{{sfn|Simek|2007|p=179}}

According to folklorist [[John Lindow]], "Jörd must have been a giantess in the beginning. If so, Odin’s marriage (or, more likely, sexual relationship outside marriage, perhaps not even a willing one on her part) to Jörd should be regarded as parallel to his other strategically minded relationships with giantesses."{{sfn|Lindow|2002|p=205}}

Philologist Haukur Thorgeirsson points out that the four manuscripts of ''Gylfaginning'' vary in their descriptions of the family relations between [[Nótt]], Jörð, [[Dagr]], and [[Dellingr]]. Depending on the manuscript, either Jörð or Nótt is the mother of Dagr and partner of Dellingr. Haukur details that "the oldest manuscript, U, offers a version where Jǫrð is the wife of Dellingr and the mother of Dagr while the other manuscripts, R, W and T, cast Nótt in the role of Dellingr's wife and Dagr's mother", and argues that "the version in U came about accidentally when the writer of U or its antecedent shortened a text similar to that in RWT. The results of this accident made their way into the Icelandic poetic tradition".{{sfn|Thorgeirsson|2008|pp=159–168}}

Some 19th-century scholars proposed that Thor's brother [[Meili]] should be understood as the son of Jörð.<ref name="JORD-MOTHER">Examples include {{harvp|Pierer|1844|p=204}}, {{harvp|Barth|1846|p=396}}, and {{harvp|Uhland|1868|p=18}}.</ref>