Heln.

1806 J. Sinclair Diss. Authenticity Poems of Ossian App. p. ccviii Those who lived and died in peace, should go to Hel, where they should enjoy no pleasure, or at least pleasures far inferior to those of Valhalla.

1856 J. B. Gross Heathen Relig. Pop. & Symbolic Devel. 220 Baldur the immaculate—the saviour, goes to Hel, the abode of the dead.

1891 V. Rydberg Teutonic Mythol. lxxii. 350 Hel's inhabitants were endowed with more than human strength.

2003 S. E. French Code of Warrior iv. 113 Hel was the repository for all those who died nonmartial deaths.

1828 Foreign Rev. 1 536 There are nine heavens, and nine earths, and in the deepest below dwells Hel, the Goddess of the Netherworld.

1870 Appleton's Jrnl. 19 Feb. 214/2 The ancient Germans, also, had their place for the dead... It was called Niffelheim,..and its ruler was Hel, the fearful goddess of death.

1913 Classical Philol. 8 325 Norse legends speak of a golden bridge across the River Gjoll to the abode of the goddess Hel.

1997 J. Bowker World Relig. 16/2 Those who died from sickness or old age went to the kingdom of Hel, a hag who was the offspring of Loki.