placeMuspelheimPlacesThe fire-world of Norse cosmogony. Not Niflheim as the ice-world, and not ordinary fire.Norse traditionMuspelheim appears in Norse tradition.Gylfaginning names Muspelheim among the fire-worlds at the edges of the gap before the world’s shaping. A named fire-realm in that prose cosmology, not Niflheim as the mist world and not Surtr as a being alone.from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220appears in · sourced · documentedsourcesGylfaginning · Snorri SturlusonSnorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.