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Originally Posted by DarkFish
The "Viking-hell", simply called "hel", is the place where all people who die of old age or disease go. It's not a bad place to go to, not at all, but it just doesn't have the luxury Valhalla has. Norse mythology doesn't have a hell like the Christians did.
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Hel was the resting place for those who died peacefully, and not a place of punishment. It has been reported to contain a section for certain people, though.
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Originally Posted by "Seeress's Prophecy", Larrington translation
A hall she saw standing far from the sun,
on Corpse-strand; its doors look north;
drops of poison fall in through the roof-vents,
the hall is woven of serpents' spines.
There she saw wading in turbid streams
men who swore false oaths and murderers,
and those who seduced the close confidantes of other men;
there Nidhogg sucks the bodies of the dead-
a wolf tears the corpses of men...
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That sounds a bit more like the Christian Hell to me.