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Hel's hall located in Niflheim as described in the Prose Edda
In
Norse mythology
,
Eljuðnir
(sometimes Anglicized to
Eljudnir
) is
Hel's
hall located in
Niflheim
as described in chapter 34 of
Snorri Sturluson's
Prose Edda
in the book
Gylfaginning
. The name
Eljuðnir
[?eːl?juːðnez?]
is
Old Norse
and means "sprayed with snowstorms" or "damp with sleet or rain".
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The hall is only mentioned in this chapter.
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The hall is described as featuring a threshold that is actually a pitfall called
Fallandaforað
meaning "falling to
peril
", her bed called
Kor
meaning "sick bed" that has bed curtains called
Blikjandabol
which means "Gleaming Disaster".
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