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Niflheim

The mist-world of Norse cosmology, a cold home of ice and later of the dead in some tellings. Not Hel’s hall as a person, and not Christian hell.

Also known as Niflheimr

Norse tradition

Niflheim appears in Norse tradition.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning presents Niflheimr as the mist-world of ice, a named cold region of Norse cosmology. Attested in that prose, not Hel as a person and not Christian hell.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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Ice water appears in Niflheim.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning seats Niflheim among ice and cold rivers whose freeze and thaw feed the gap. A named ice-water in that ice-world speech, not melt-water as the gap’s living drops alone and not ice as the solid kind already walked.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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Glacier appears in Niflheim.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning seats Niflheim among persistent ice and cold that feed the Élivágar and the gap. A named glacier-kind in that ice-world speech, not ice as the solid element already walked and not fjord as a drowned trough dump.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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Tundra appears in Niflheim.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning seats Niflheim among cold waste before the world’s shaping. A named tundra-kind in that ice-world speech, not glacier as moving ice alone and not fen as a wetland dump.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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