GoldMeadApplesA kept heirloomCaring for something inherited
Invocation Approach
Tone
Warm and material
Address
GersemiThe TreasureFreyja's Daughter
Relationship
The value of what is kept
Warning
She is a name in a list not a goddess with a cult
Resonance
Those keeping an inheritance those who look after precious things
Symbols
JewelChestGoldApples
Mythology Summary
Gersemi is named in Snorri's Prose Edda as the daughter of Freyja and Óðr and the sister of Hnoss, her name meaning 'treasure' or 'jewel'. The attestation is a bare notice — no poem, no story, no cult — and she is generally treated with Hnoss as a pair of names for preciousness. There is no narrative, no ritual and no worship attached to her; she is one of the names Snorri lists among the goddesses.
Modern Practice
Gersemi is worked with for keeping rather than getting: the care of an inherited object, the safeguarding of a household's wealth, the deliberate keeping of something valuable. The practice is conservation — the heirloom cleaned, the account kept, the thing passed on.