Time for another deep dive! This time into the mysterious origins of the one called Hel: the daughter of Loki and the sister of two giant monsters. Who does she own upon death? The answer may not be quite as simple as you think.

Sources:

• “Dictionary of Northern Mythology” by Rudolf Simek, 2007

  
  



• “Gesta Danorum” transl. by Karsten Friis-Jensen and Peter Fisher, 2015

  
  



• “Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs”, by John Lindow, 2002

  
  



• “The Road to Hel” by Hilda Roderick Ellis, 1968

  
  



• “Worlds of the Dead” by John Lindow and Anders Andrén in Pre-Christian Religions of the North volume II, 2020

  
  



• “The Poetic Edda”, transl. by Carolyne Larrington, 2014

  
  



• “The Prose Edda”, transl. by Anthony Faulkes, 1995

  
  

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