What does Hel rule over?
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the realm of the dead
In her gloomy realm Helheim, Hel receives the dead who did not fall in battle.
💡 Did you know? Her name lives on in the English word „hell.“
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Whose daughter is Hel?
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Loki's
Like the wolf Fenrir and the world serpent, Hel is a child of Loki and a giantess.
💡 Did you know? Odin cast her into the depths and gave her power over the nine worlds of the dead.
How is Hel usually depicted?
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half living, half corpse-pale
One side of Hel looks like a living woman, the other like a corpse: an image of death itself.
💡 Did you know? When the gods sought to reclaim the dead Baldr, Hel demanded that the whole world weep for him.
What is Hel's realm of the dead called?
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Helheim
Hel's gloomy realm Helheim lies far in the north, beyond icy rivers.
💡 Did you know? The road there crosses the bridge Gjallarbrú, guarded by the giantess Móðguðr.
What awaits the dead in Hel's hall?
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hunger and sickness
In Hel's hall her plate is named „Hunger“ and her knife „Famine.“
💡 Did you know? So her realm mirrors the joyless state of the unheroic death.
Whom did Hel nearly have to give back?
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Baldr
At the gods' plea Hel was willing to release the dead Baldr: on one condition.
💡 Did you know? Because a single giantess refused to weep for him, Baldr stayed with Hel.
Where did Odin banish young Hel?
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into the depths of Niflheim
With power over nine worlds of the dead.
💡 Did you know? Her siblings fared likewise: sea and fetter.
What is Hel's bed in her hall called?
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Kör: sickbed
Her bed-curtain is called “looming disaster”.
💡 Did you know? The Edda furnishes misery quite literally.
What condition did Hel set for Baldr's release?
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all the world must weep
Every thing and creature was to mourn him.
💡 Did you know? A single dry eye made everything fail.
Which place of punishment lies below even Hel's realm?
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Náströnd
The “corpse shore”: a hall of serpent spines, venom dripping through the roof.
💡 Did you know? There the dragon Nidhögg gnaws the dead.
Who was Hel's mother?
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the giantess Angrboda
“The grief-bringer”: mother of all three monsters.
💡 Did you know? Loki fathered them in Jotunheim.
On whose side do Hel's dead march at Ragnarök?
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on Loki's
They sail on the ship of the dead, Naglfar.
💡 Did you know? At the helm stands Loki himself.
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