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Ner⋅thus

[nur-thuhs]
–noun German Mythology.
goddess of fertility, described by Tacitus in his Germania: later appeared in Scandinavian mythology as the god Njord.
Compare Njord.
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noun
the Teutonic goddess of fertility; later identified with Norse Njord 
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