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In Norse mythology, Hel is both the realm of the dead and its ruler, Loki's daughter and sister to the wolf Fenrir and the worlld-serpent Jormundgandr. …

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In Norse mythology, Hel is both the realm of the dead and its ruler, Loki's daughter and sister to the wolf Fenrir and the worlld-serpent Jormundgandr. The 13th Century Prose Edda describes her thus:

..."She has (there) a great mansion, and the walls around it are of strange height, and the gates are huge. Éljúðnir is the name of her hall. Her table is called famine; her knife, starvation... Her threshold is called stumbling−block; her bed, care; the precious hangings of her bed, gleaming bale. One−half of her is blue, and the other half is of the hue of flesh; hence she is easily known. Her looks are very stern and grim. « Less