Gersemi (

Old Norse Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlement ...

"treasure") is the daughter of the fertility-goddess

Freyja In Norse paganism, Freyja (Old Norse "(the) Lady") is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr (magic for seeing and influencing the future). Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chario ...

Norse mythology Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Nordic folklore of the modern per ...

. She could be the same figure as

Hnoss Hnoss (Old Norse: , "treasure") is one of the daughters of Freyja and Óðr in Norse mythology. Name The Old Norse term ''Hnoss'' has been translated in a variety of ways by scholars and folklorists. The Goddess Myths of the Great Mother claim ...

, another daughter of Freyja.

Name

The

name ''Gersemi'' means 'treasure', something which is considered precious or valuable. It is most likely a

derivative In mathematics, the derivative of a function of a real variable measures the sensitivity to change of the function value (output value) with respect to a change in its argument (input value). Derivatives are a fundamental tool of calculus. ...

of the unattested Old Norse noun ''*gersamr'', compared with the Icelandic ''gersemi'' or the

Old Swedish Old Swedish (Modern Swedish: ) is the name for two distinct stages of the Swedish language that were spoken in the Middle Ages: Early Old Swedish (), spoken from about 1225 until about 1375, and Late Old Swedish (), spoken from about 1375 unti ...

''gärsimi'' ('treasure'), and with the Danish ''gjørsum'' (a special fine imposed on a manslaughterer).

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* * Vanir Norse goddesses Freyja {{norse-myth-stub