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HEL, or HELA

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 218 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEL, or HELA , in Scandinavian See also:mythology, the goddess of the dead. She was a See also:child of Loki and the giantess Angurboda, and dwelt beneath the roots of the sacred ash, See also:Yggdrasil. She was given dominion over the nine worlds of Helheim. In See also:early myth all the dead went to her: in later See also:legend only those who died of old See also:age or sickness, and she then became synonymous with suffering and horror. Her dwelling was Elvidnir (dark clouds), her dish Hungr (See also:hunger), her See also:knife Sullt (See also:starvation), her servants Ganglate (tardy feet), her See also:bed Kor (sickness), and her bed-curtains Blikiandabol (splendid misery).

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