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Peorth is a sysadmin for Yggdrasil (Heaven's system). Also, a 1st class unlimited goddess like Belldandy. Unlike Belldandy which "works on the field", Peorth has to administrate heaven's system and is Belldandy's rival in many situations. She only starts her appearance in the movie where she tries to solve an Yggdrasil infection.
First Appearance: The Movie. (Manga Chpt 66)
Age: 25
Height: 170 cm
From: Earth Assistance Centre
Class: Grade 2, First class, Unlimited license
Domain: Unknown
Alternate source of energy: Unknown
Angel: Gorgeous Rose
Voice actress: Sakuma Rei
She is the fourth Goddess to appear, transporting through cameras. She has long black hair and brown eyes, and her goddess markings are diamond-shaped. She's known for her skimpy clothing.
Norse Mythology
Peorth is the 14th rune of the Elder Futhark and the 6th rune of the second Aettir. It is spelled in various forms depending on the language: Perthro (Germanic: lot cup), Pairthra (Gothic: dice-cup),...
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Peorth is a sysadmin for Yggdrasil (Heaven's system). Also, a 1st class unlimited goddess like Belldandy. Unlike Belldandy which "works on the field", Peorth has to administrate heaven's system and is Belldandy's rival in many situations. She only starts her appearance in the movie where she tries to solve an Yggdrasil infection.
First Appearance: The Movie. (Manga Chpt 66)
Age: 25
Height: 170 cm
From: Earth Assistance Centre
Class: Grade 2, First class, Unlimited license
Domain: Unknown
Alternate source of energy: Unknown
Angel: Gorgeous Rose
Voice actress: Sakuma Rei
She is the fourth Goddess to appear, transporting through cameras. She has long black hair and brown eyes, and her goddess markings are diamond-shaped. She's known for her skimpy clothing.
Norse Mythology
Peorth is the 14th rune of the Elder Futhark and the 6th rune of the second Aettir. It is spelled in various forms depending on the language: Perthro (Germanic: lot cup), Pairthra (Gothic: dice-cup), Peordh or Peorth (Old English/Anglo-Saxon: gaming piece), Pailt (Gaelic: plentiful).
Peorth is one of the more obscure and ambiguous runes. Various translations include hearth, fruit tree, chessmen, pawn, table game, and dice box, among others. The latter speculations arise from the context of Peorth in the Old English Rune Poem:
The Rune Poem: Verse XIV Perth
The Peorth is ever the play and laughter
Of proud men . . . .
where warriors sit blithely
Together in the beer hall.
Donald Tyson in his Book Rune Magic (1998) explains the origins of this rune:
The definition of Peord as some form of game or gaming implement, even if generally correct in the context of the poem is far removed from its first meaning. All runes once stood for natural objects or elemental forces. It was only when the runes were interpreted by settled societies that they became trivialized. For example yew became yew-bow; cattle became wealth; the necessity to endure became feudal obligation.
However, if table-game is the degenerate meaning, a link may be formed with the first meaning of the rune--apple tree. Tacitus in his Germania mentions that the Germans divined by cutting twigs from a fruit-bearing tree and carving runes on them. The most obvious fruit tree of the northern forests is the apple. History teaches that traditional forms of divination frequently degenerate into games of gambling. The Tarot devolved into common playing cards. Geomancy became dice. It is not unlikely that Germanic divination was reduced over time to a form of table sport--probably some form of draughts. If so the runic name for the wood used in divination may have carried down to the game.
All this is highly speculative. It is worth noting, however, that a scholar named Marstrander arrived at the same meaning for Peord through a separate philological route. He related the rune name Peord to the Irish name for apple tree, ciert, and connected the two references to the evolution of words.
Incidentally, Peorth as a dice cup has a distant connection with the Norns. Warriors would throw dice to ascertain their destinies, and they believed the resulting position of the dice was ordained by the three Norns, past, present, and future.
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