If in Norse mythology Valhalla is heaven, what is hell?

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If in Norse mythology Valhalla is heaven, what is hell?

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It's most often called just Hel.
But it's not the same as hell, you were not punished for your previous deeds or misdeeds there.

http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helheim

Niflheim (now most often called Nivlheim) is something else, though.
It' s a place that existed before every life began, and consisted of just frost and mist. Sorry the references are in Norwegian, though.

http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niflheim

Oct 18 2007, 4:07 PM

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The Norse Hell is called Hel (sometimes Helheim), after the goddess who rules it. The English word "Hell" is related to this name.

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/h/helheim.html

The people condemned to Hel were either dishonorable (cowards or oathbreakers) or they committed the terrible sin of dying naturally instead of in battle.

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In Norse mythology hell was called Niflheim oe Hel, it was "world of the ice and that of the dead, which is also know as Hel."

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Norse_mythology

Oct 17 2007, 6:30 PM

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