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The Old Norse name Hel is identical to the name of the location over which she rules. It stems from the Proto-Germanic feminine noun *haljō-'concealed place, the underworld' (compare with Gothic halja, Old English hel or hell, Old Frisian helle, Old Saxon hellia, Old High German hella), itself a derivative of *helan-'to cover > conceal, hide' (compare with OE helan, OF hela, OS helan, OHG helan).
Hel (1889) by Johannes Gehrts, depicts the Old Norse Hel, a goddess-like figure, in the location of the same name, which she oversees. The modern English word hell is derived from Old English hel, helle (first attested around 725 AD to refer to a nether world of the dead) reaching into the Anglo-Saxon pagan period. [1]
Hello, with that spelling, was used in publications in the U.S. as early as the 18 October 1826 edition of the Norwich Courier of Norwich, Connecticut. [1] Another early use was an 1833 American book called The Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee, [2] which was reprinted that same year in The London Literary Gazette. [3]
"Odin Rides to Hel" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood. Hel (Old Norse: ) is an afterlife location in Norse mythology and paganism.It is ruled over by a being of the same name, Hel.In late Icelandic sources, varying descriptions of Hel are given and various figures are described as being buried with items that will facilitate their journey to Hel after their death [citation needed].
The Catholic Church has decided nothing on this subject; hence we may say hell is a definite place; but where it is, we do not know." He cited the view of Augustine of Hippo that Hell is under the earth and that of Gregory the Great that hell is either on the earth or under it. [62]
In Gisla saga, 'hel-shoes' are put on men's feet to allow them to walk to Valhalla. [16] In Hárbarðsljóð, Hárbarðr (who is typically identified as Odin), taunts Thor by saying that the earls who die in battle go to Odin, while Thor receives the thralls. [17] Some who die in battle are described as going to Hel rather than Valhalla. [18]
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Hel, the jötunn and daughter of Loki, presides over the eponymous Hel, where those who die of illness or old age dwell. Freyja, the goddess of love and war, claims half of the fallen warriors in her realm of Fólkvangr. Rán, the sea goddess, gathers the drowned into her underwater hall. These female goddesses further enforce this image of ...