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Gjöll, the Glossary

Gjöll (Old Norse: Gjǫll) is the river that separates the living from the dead in Norse mythology.^[1]

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Norse underworld
Rivers in Norse mythology

Andy Orchard

Andrew Philip McDowell Orchard, (born 27 February 1964) is a British academic of Old English, Norse and Celtic literature.

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In Norse mythology, Élivágar (Old Norse:; "Ice Waves") are rivers that existed in Ginnungagap at the beginning of the world. Gjöll and Élivágar are Norse mythology stubs and rivers in Norse mythology.

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Baldr

Baldr (Old Norse also Balder, Baldur) is a god in Germanic mythology.

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Bifröst

In Norse mythology, Bifröst, also called Bilröst, is a burning rainbow bridge that reaches between Midgard (Earth) and Asgard, the realm of the gods.

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Fenrir

Fenrir (Old Norse 'fen-dweller')Orchard (1997:42).

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Ginnungagap

In Norse mythology, Ginnungagap (old Norse:; "gaping abyss", "yawning void") is the primordial, magical void mentioned in three poems from the Poetic Edda and the Gylfaginning, the Eddaic text recording Norse cosmogony.

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Gjallarbrú

Gjallarbrú (literally "Gjöll Bridge") is a bridge in Norse mythology which spans the river Gjöll in the underworld. Gjöll and Gjallarbrú are Norse underworld.

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Gjallarhorn

In Norse mythology, Gjallarhorn (Zoëga(1910:166).-->Old Norse:; "hollering horn"Orchard (1997:57). or "the loud sounding horn"Simek (2007:110).) is a horn associated with the god Heimdallr and the wise being Mímir.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.

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Gylfaginning

Gylfaginning (Old Norse: 'The Beguiling of Gylfi' or 'The Deluding of Gylfi'; 13th century Old Norse pronunciation) is the first main part of the 13th century Prose Edda, after the initial Prologue.

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Hel (location)

Hel (Old Norse) is an afterlife location in Norse mythology and paganism. Gjöll and Hel (location) are Norse underworld.

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Henry Adams Bellows (businessman)

Henry Adams Bellows (September 22, 1885 – December 29, 1939) was a newspaper editor and radio executive who was an early member of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

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Hermóðr

Hermóðr (Old Norse:, "war-spirit";Orchard (1997:83). anglicized as Hermod) is a figure in Norse mythology, a son of the god Odin and brother of Baldr.

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Hindu mythology

Hindu mythology is the body of myths attributed to, and espoused by, the adherents of the Hindu religion, found in Hindu texts such as the Vedas, the itihasa (the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana) the Puranas, and mythological stories specific to a particular ethnolinguistic group like the Tamil Periya Puranam and ''Divya Prabandham'', and the Mangal Kavya of Bengal.

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Hitfun

In Mandaean cosmology, Hiṭfun (written Mandaic: Hiṭpun) or Hiṭfon (Hiṭpon) (ࡄࡉࡈࡐࡅࡍ) is a great dividing river separating the World of Darkness from the World of Light.

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Hubur

Hubur (Hu-bur) is a Sumerian term meaning "river", "watercourse" or "netherworld." It is usually the "river of the netherworld".

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Hvergelmir

Hvergelmir (Old Norse "bubbling boiling spring"Orchard (1997:93)) is an important primal wellspring in Norse mythology.

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Móðguðr

In Norse mythology, Móðguðr (Old Norse:, "Furious Battler"; also Modgud) refers to the female guardian of the bridge over the river Gjöll ("Noisy"), Gjallarbrú. Gjöll and Móðguðr are Norse underworld.

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Niflheim

In Norse cosmology, Niflheim or Niflheimr (Old Norse:; "World of Mist", literally "Home of Mist") is a location which sometimes overlaps with the notions of Niflhel and Hel. Gjöll and Niflheim are Norse underworld.

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Norse mythology

Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Nordic folklore of the modern period.

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Old Norse

Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.

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Proto-Indo-Europeans

The Proto-Indo-Europeans are a hypothetical prehistoric ethnolinguistic group of Eurasia who spoke Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.

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Rudolf Simek

Rudolf Simek (born 21 February 1954) is an Austrian philologist and religious studies scholar who is Professor and Chair of Ancient German and Nordic Studies at the University of Bonn.

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Sanzu River

The is a mythological river in Japanese Buddhist tradition similar to the Chinese concept of Huang Quan (Yellow Springs), Indian concept of the Vaitarani and Greek concept of the Styx.

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