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  2. Niflhel - Wikipedia

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    Niflhel ("Misty Hel"; Nifel meaning fog) is a location in Norse mythology which appears in the eddic poems Vafþrúðnismál and Baldrs draumar, and also in Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning. According to Snorri Sturluson's work, Niflhel could be interpreted as the lowest level of Hel , but Niflhel and sometimes Hel are conflated with the concept ...

  3. Éljúðnir - Wikipedia

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    In Norse mythology, Éljúðnir (sometimes Anglicized to Eljudnir) is Hel's hall located in Niflheim as described in chapter 34 of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda in the book Gylfaginning. The name Éljúðnir [ˈeːlˌjuːðnez̠] is Old Norse and means "sprayed with snowstorms" or "damp with sleet or rain". [1] The hall is only mentioned in ...

  4. Niflheim - Wikipedia

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    In Norse cosmology, Niflheim or Niflheimr (Old Norse: [ˈnivlˌhɛimz̠]; "World of Mist", [1] literally "Home of Mist") is a location which sometimes overlaps with the notions of Niflhel and Hel. The name Niflheimr appears only in two extant sources: Gylfaginning and the much-debated Hrafnagaldr Óðins .

  5. Helreginn - Wikipedia

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    The Old Norse name Helreginn has been translated as 'Ruler over Hel', [1] or 'Hel-power'. [2] Rudolf Simek comments that the name is unusual, reasoning that it is uncommon for a jötunn to be directly associated with "the underworld."

  6. Gnipahellir - Wikipedia

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    Gnipahellir (Gnipa cave) is a cave in Norse mythology.Gnipahellir is the home of Garmr, the hellhound who guards the gates of Hel, the Norse realm of the dead.Garmr is often featured chained here until the onset of Ragnarök, at which time his bindings break and he runs free.

  7. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface , a mobile app for Android and iOS , as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications . [ 3 ]

  8. List of Old Norse exonyms - Wikipedia

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    From skrækja, meaning "bawl, shout, or yell" [29] or from skrá, meaning "dried skin", in reference to the animal pelts worn by the Inuit. [29] The name the Norse Greenlanders gave the previous inhabitants of North America and Greenland. Skuggifjord Hudson Strait Straumfjörð "Current-fjord", "Stream-fjord" or "Tide-fjord". A fjord in Vinland.

  9. Talk:Hel (mythological being) - Wikipedia

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    In common English, she is a goddess. The page was created as a sub-stub at Hel (godess) in 2001 and developed happily at this title until December 2005, when all hell broke loose. See here or the page history of Hel (godess) from which that was copied, and various discussions at Talk:Hel (being)/Archive 1 and above. Hopefully this RM will bring ...