Gerðr [SEP] mother
Skírnir returns with Gerðr's response, Freyr laments that the meeting could not occur sooner. In both the "Poetic Edda" and the "Prose Edda", Gerðr is described as the daughter of Gymir and the jötunn Aurboða.
In "Heimskringla", Gerðr is recorded as the wife of Freyr, euhemerized as having been a beloved king of Sweden. In the same source, the couple are the founders of the Yngling dynasty and produced a son, Fjölnir, who rose to kinghood after Freyr's passing and continued
"rivals" of the goddess Frigg, a list of sexual partners of Frigg's husband, Odin. Instead of "Gerðr", the jötunn Gríðr, mother of Odin's son Víðarr according to the "Prose Edda", was probably intended. One manuscript has Gríðr corrected to Gerðr. Andy Orchard notes that it may nonetheless be an intentional inclusion in view of "Odin's notorious appetites".
Theories Earth and fertility.
Scholar John Lindow comments that Gerðr's name has been etymologically associated with the earth and enclosures