Gnipahellir ( Gnipa cave ) is a cave in Norse mythology . Gnipahellir is the home of Garmr , the hellhound who guards the gates of Hel , the Norse realm of the dead. Garmr is often featured chained here until the onset of Ragnarok , at which time his bindings break and he runs free. Reference to Gnipahellir appears in V?luspa , Prophecy of the Volva , one of the poems of the Poetic Edda . ^{[1] [2]}

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• Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist (1916) Snorri Sturluson's The Prose Edda (The American-Scandinavian Foundation, CreateSpace Independent Publishing. 2011) ISBN   978-1461087892
• Lincoln, Bruce (1991) Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology and Practice (University of Chicago Press) ISBN   0-226-48199-9 .
• Orchard, Andy (1997) Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend (Cassell) ISBN   0-304-34520-2
• Simek, Rudolf (1996) Dictionary of Northern Mythology (translated by Angela Hall. first published by Alfred Kroner Verlag in 1984. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer) ISBN   0-85991-513-1

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