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Helgardh, also known as Hel ("house of mists"), shares a name with the goddess who rules it. In Norse mythology, Hel is one of the nine worlds, the abode of the dead, ruled over by Hel. It is thronged with the shivering and shadowy spectres of those who have died ingloriously of disease or in old age. Helheim is also home to dishonourable people who have broken oaths. Helgardh is cold and low on the overall order of the universe. It lies beneath Yggdrasil's third root, near Hvergelmir and Nastrond. It is uncertain if Helgardh and Niflheim are completely different places, if one is part of the other, or if both are names for the same place. A goddess is a female deity, in contrast with a male deity known as a god. A great many cultures have goddesses, sometimes alone, but more often as part of a larger pantheon that includes both of the conventional genders and in some cases even hermaphroditic (or gender neutral) deities. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Norse or Scandinavian mythology refers to the pre-Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian people, including those who settled on Iceland, where the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled. ...
In Norse mythology, Hel is the queen of Helheim, the Norse underworld. ...
This illustration shows a 19th century attempt to visualize the world view of the Prose Edda. ...
Hvergelmir is the wellspring of cold in Niflheim in Norse mythology. ...
Nastrond, in Norse mythology, is a hall and region in Helgardh, spoken of as “the shores of the dead. ...
Niflheim (Land of Mists) is the realm of ice and cold in Norse Mythology. ...
Helheim is said to be a hall with a roof woven from the spines of serpents which drip poison down onto those who wade in the rivers of blood below. The people who dwell in the halls are given nothing but goat's urine to quench their thirst.
The doors of the hall are said to be set in the south, away from Asguard which lies to the north.
The hall is surrounded by a river called Gjoll, which is freezing cold and has knives flowing in it.
The only way across the river is over a bridge guarded by a giantess.
If a living person steps on the bridge, it rings out as if a thousand men walk across it, yet the dead pass without a sound.
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