There
is no evidence for Geofon left in Old English literature, save for her
name is a word for "ocean." This should not be taken to imply she was
not worshiped however. One of her legends, told to us in the Ragnarsdrápa, preserved in the Heimskringla,
would have been known to the Angles on the continent. The legend is
that of the creation of the island of Zealand. She took her four sons
by a giant, and as oxen plowed out the island, and gave it the name
Zealand. We are further told in the Prose Edda,
that she married the king, Scyld (Skjöldr) afterwards. Snorri
holds that she recieved the souls of unmarried women while in the Lokasenna she is said to be as omniscient as Woden himself.
Her
name may derive from a word meaning "to give." And this would place her
perhaps in the cult of the of mothers known amongst Germanic
mercenaries in service to Rome in Great Britain. These goddesses
usually had names like Garmangibi "giving."