In Norse mythology, Hvergelmir (Old Norse: [ˈxwerˌɡelmez̠]; "bubbling boiling spring") is a major spring. Hvergelmir is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled...
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primordial ice and cold, with the frozen rivers of Élivágar and the well of Hvergelmir, from which come all the rivers. According to Gylfaginning, Niflheim was...
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hall, and bites from Lærâd’s branches; from his horns fall drops into Hvergelmir, whence all waters rise:— —Grímnismál (25, 26), Thorpe's translation Under...
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locations; one to the well Urðarbrunnr in the heavens, one to the spring Hvergelmir, and another to the well Mímisbrunnr. Creatures live within Yggdrasil...
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Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning, Gjöll originates from the wellspring Hvergelmir in Niflheim, flowing through Ginnungagap, and thence into the worlds of...
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wells existing beneath three roots of Yggdrasil, the other two being Hvergelmir, located beneath a root in Niflheim, and Urðarbrunnr. In the Poetic Edda...
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Niflheim from which the Élivágar find their source in the wellspring Hvergelmir, began to fill the void. It then combined with the life-giving fire and...
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Bilskirnir Breidablik Elivagar Fyris Wolds Gandvik Ginnungagap Hel Hlidskjalf Hvergelmir Járnviðr Jötunheimr Leipter River Kormet Midgard Muspelheim Náströnd Niðavellir...
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many Eddic poems. Also the name of a serpent found in the wellspring of Hvergelmir. Mallory, James P.; Adams, Douglas Q. (1997). Encyclopedia of Indo-European...
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not enter it—and the foggy land of Niflheim. In Niflheim was a spring, Hvergelmir, and from it flow numerous rivers. Together these rivers, known as Élivágar...
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insertion of original prose stating that the worst place of all to be is in Hvergelmir, followed by a quote from Völuspá to highlight that the dragon Níðhöggr...
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Fólkvangr Ginnungagap Hel (location) Muspelheim Niflheim Mímisbrunnr Hvergelmir Urðarbrunnr Yggdrasill Valhalla Jötunheimr Rituals and worship Blót Seiðr...
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reach into three distant, different lands; the other two wells being Hvergelmir, located beneath a root in Niflheim, and Mímisbrunnr, located beneath...
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liquor beyond compare, and Eikþyrnir's antlers drip liquid into the spring Hvergelmir from which flows forth all waters. In stanza 38 of the poem Helgakviða...
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Fólkvangr Ginnungagap Hel (location) Muspelheim Niflheim Mímisbrunnr Hvergelmir Urðarbrunnr Yggdrasill Valhalla Jötunheimr Rituals and worship Blót Seiðr...
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the Earth was made, Niflheim existed. Inside Niflheim was a well called Hvergelmir, from this well flowed numerous streams known as the Élivágar. Their names...
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the land of the dead. Glaciers pour into it from the freezing well of Hvergelmir, its waters are full of knives and swords, and it flows through "valleys...
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Fólkvangr Ginnungagap Hel (location) Muspelheim Niflheim Mímisbrunnr Hvergelmir Urðarbrunnr Yggdrasill Valhalla Jötunheimr Rituals and worship Blót Seiðr...
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Fólkvangr Ginnungagap Hel (location) Muspelheim Niflheim Mímisbrunnr Hvergelmir Urðarbrunnr Yggdrasill Valhalla Jötunheimr Rituals and worship Blót Seiðr...
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from his horns distils such abundant exudation that it comes down into Hvergelmir, and from thence fall those rivers called thus: Síd, Víd, Søkin, Eikin...
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Fólkvangr Ginnungagap Hel (location) Muspelheim Niflheim Mímisbrunnr Hvergelmir Urðarbrunnr Yggdrasill Valhalla Jötunheimr Rituals and worship Blót Seiðr...
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Urðarbrunnr, where the gods hold court Mímisbrunnr, the place of Wóden's ordeal Hvergelmir, the wellspring of cold Connla's Well in Irish mythology, containing the...
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Niflheim, a world of clouds and shadows in whose center surged the fountain Hvergelmir, from which flowed twelve rivers of ice. The one to the south was named...
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dead in Norse mythology. Hel (heimr) The underworld in Norse mythology. Hvergelmir A major spring in Norse mythology. Jotunheim Land of the giants in Norse...
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Fólkvangr Ginnungagap Hel (location) Muspelheim Niflheim Mímisbrunnr Hvergelmir Urðarbrunnr Yggdrasill Valhalla Jötunheimr Rituals and worship Blót Seiðr...
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Fólkvangr Ginnungagap Hel (location) Muspelheim Niflheim Mímisbrunnr Hvergelmir Urðarbrunnr Yggdrasill Valhalla Jötunheimr Rituals and worship Blót Seiðr...
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non-natives. After "many ages" Niflheimr was made, and within it lies a spring, Hvergelmir, from which eleven rivers flow.: 9–10 Gangleri asks the three what things...
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Men that are mansworn, and they that murderers are. But it is worst in Hvergelmir: There the cursed snake tears dead men's corpses. Gylfaginning 52, Brodeur's...
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exception of a brief spoken-word monologue added to a re-recording of "Hvergelmir", which is in Swedish). For instance, the song "Sankaritarina" from Voimasta...
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Fólkvangr Ginnungagap Hel (location) Muspelheim Niflheim Mímisbrunnr Hvergelmir Urðarbrunnr Yggdrasill Valhalla Jötunheimr Rituals and worship Blót Seiðr...
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