Herttha (true reading in Tacitus, Nerthus), the North German deity identified with 'Mother Earth,' to whom the Herttha Lake in Rügen was sacred.
Herttha
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 696
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Herttha (true reading in Tacitus, Nerthus), the North German deity identified with 'Mother Earth,' to whom the Herttha Lake in Rügen was sacred.