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Niflheim

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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

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson

    Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.