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honor" and Hermóðr spends a night in Hel. The following day, Hermóðr presses Hel, the being, to allow Baldr to leave. Hel gives him an offer and then Baldr leads him out of the hall. Baldr then gives Hermóðr various gifts from Nanna and himself to bring from Hel to the living Æsir. Hermóðr then retraces his path back to the land of the living. Hel's offer fails and in chapter 50,
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Móðguð speaks to Hermóðr and comments that the bridge echoes beneath him more than the entire party of five people who had just passed. This is a reference to Baldr, Nanna and those that were burnt in their funeral pyre passing over the bridge on death. Móðguð also says that the dead in Hel appear as
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Continuing along the Road to Hel, Hermóðr encounters the Gates of Hel. Hermóðr remounts and spurs Sleipnir, and the two bound far over it. Hermóðr proceeds further beyond the gates for some distance before arriving at the hall, dismounting and entering. There Hermóðr sees Baldr sitting in a "seat of
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Hadingus and the woman continue until they arrived at a river of blue-black water that is fast-moving, full of rapids, and filled with various weapons. They cross the bridge, and see two "strongly-matched" armies meeting. Hadingus asks the woman about their identity, and she responds that they are
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Moving forward, the two encounter a wall that they cannot find a way over. The woman attempts to leap over it, but despite her slender and wrinkled body, cannot. The woman removes the head of a cock that she was carrying and throws it over the wall. The bird crows immediately; it has returned to
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The two penetrate a dark and misty cloud, and then continue along a path worn from heavy use over the ages. The two see men wearing rich-looking robes, and nobles wearing purple. Passing them, they finally reach sunny regions where the herbs the woman presented Hadingus grow.
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has had. He uses a spell to bring to life the corpse of a völva. Odin introduces himself under a false name and pretense and asks for information from the völva relating to Baldr's dreams. The völva reluctantly proceeds to produce prophecies regarding the events of
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makes an appearance, encountering Odin on Odin's ride to Hel. Odin continues down the road and approaches Hel, which is described as the "high hall of Hel." There he proceeds to the grave of the völva near the eastern doors where the descriptions of Hel end.
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The poem gives some information regarding the geographic location of Hel in parallel to the description in the Prose Edda, which may be related to the fact that it was not included in the Codex Regius but is instead a later addition.
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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. In the
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who asks him if he knows where such fresh herbs grow in winter. Hadingus wants to know; so the woman muffles him with her cloak, pulls him into the ground, and they vanish.
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men that have met their death by sword, and that they present an everlasting display of their destruction while attempting to equal the activity of their past lives.
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a different color than the living and tells him that to get to Hel he must go "down and to the North" where he would find the Road to Hel.
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writes that Hel was cast down into Hel by Odin who "made her ruler over Nine Worlds". Snorri further writes that there Hel is located in
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contains an account of what has often been interpreted as a trip to Hel. While having dinner, King
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reasons that the gods wished for Hadingus to visit in the flesh where he will go when he dies.
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belonging to her. This results in a heated exchange, during which Brynhildr tells of her life.
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Saxo Grammaticus: The History of the Danes, Books I-IX : I. English Text; II. Commentary
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stanza 31, Hel is listed as existing beneath one of the three roots of the world tree
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through "valleys so deep and dark that he saw nothing" until he arrives at the river
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is identical to the name of the entity that presides over the realm, Old Norse
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The Road to Hel: A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature
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Scardigli, Piergiuseppe, Die Goten: Sprache und Kultur (1973) pp. 70-71.
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For discussion and analysis, see Orel (2003:156) and Watkins (2000:38).
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Anthropomorphic wooden cult figurines of Central and Northern Europe
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life. Hadingus returns to his wife, and foils a threat by pirates.
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but is a later addition often included with modern editions of the
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Related early Germanic terms and concepts include Proto-Germanic *
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and its numerous Germanic cognates derive from Proto-Germanic *
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Lehmann, Winfred, A Gothic Etymological Dictionary (1986)
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and Baldr are mentioned as returning from Hel in a post-
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rides to the edge of Hel to investigate nightmares that
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people, clan, and place names in Germanic heroic legend
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
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The term is etymologically related to Modern English
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In chapter 53, Hel is mentioned a final time in the
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The second element in the Gothic 136:The Old Norse feminine proper noun 3361:Heathenry (new religious movement) 25: 1225:Horse burial in Germanic paganism 985:. Fisher, Peter (Trans.) (1998). 763:whose name means "ruler over Hel" 406:In reference to Hel, in the poem 363:. The compound is a compound of * 260:, a feminine compound noun, and * 3559: 3416: 2024:Austri, Vestri, Norðri and Suðri 1038:A Handbook of Germanic Etymology 747:teachings about the after-life. 351:'hell-torment, hell', Old Saxon 335:is reconstructed from Old Norse 30:For the location in Poland, see 391:'foolishness, understanding'). 2461:Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán 949:Byock, Jesse (Trans.) (2006). 531:'s descriptions of Hel in the 379:'right mind, wits', Old Saxon 228:-: 'to cover, conceal, save'. 56:"Odin Rides to Hel" (1908) by 1: 535:are not corroborated outside 445:and the third to Mankind. 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