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Jera
- Literal meaning
- year, harvest
- Associated concepts
- cycle · reward · right timing
- Ætt
- Hagal's ætt
Jera is the full agricultural year, the harvest that arrives after the sowing. The Anglo-Saxon rune poem describes it as the hope of men, when God lets the earth yield its bright fruit. It stands for the reward that demands time: nothing worthwhile arrives before its cycle is done.