Erce

Anglo Saxon · deity · mythic · deity

ONE WORD, THREE TIMES, IN ONE MANUSCRIPT, AND IT IS THE ONLY TIME AN ENGLISH EARTH-MOTHER IS CALLED BY NAME. The record does NOT identify her with Nerthus, whom the corpus holds as continental_germanic_nerthus, and does not translate the name, because the sources do neither. Carries a verified-solitary verdict.

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