Þul Ása II 1III/7 — Njǫrðr ‘Njǫrðr’
Enn skal telja ása heiti:
þar es Yggr ok Þórr ok Yngvi-Freyr,
Víðarr ok Baldr, Váli ok Heimdallr;
þá es Týr ok Njǫrðr; tel ek næst Braga,
Hǫðr, Forseti; hér es øfstr Loki.
Skal enn telja heiti ása: þar es Yggr ok Þórr ok Yngvi-Freyr, Víðarr ok Baldr, Váli ok Heimdallr; þá es Týr ok Njǫrðr; ek tel næst Braga, Hǫðr, Forseti; hér es Loki øfstr.
I shall further list the names of the gods: there is Yggr <= Óðinn> and Þórr and Yngvi-Freyr, Víðarr and Baldr, Váli and Heimdallr; then there are Týr and Njǫrðr; I list Bragi next, Hǫðr, Forseti; here is Loki last.
notes
[7] Njǫrðr: In the present þula, as in Skm (SnE 1998, I, 1), Njǫrðr is listed among the gods of the Æsir family, although he is one of the Vanir, the family of the deities of fertility (Gylf, SnE 2005, 23). Cf. the name of the Germanic goddess Nerthus, whose cult is described by Tacitus (see ARG I, 467-72, II, 163-5, 203-4). See also Vafþr 38, Grí 16, Lok 33-6, Gylf (SnE 2005, 23-4), Skm (SnE 1998, I, 2-3, 18), as well as Yng (ch. 4, ÍF 26, 12-13). His name is widely used as a base-word in kennings for ‘man’.