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Hvergelmir (Old
Norse "bubbling
boiling spring") is an
important primal wellspring in
Norse mythology.
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 Gyl****inning,
Niflheim was...
- locations; one to the well Urðarbrunnr in the heavens, one to the
spring Hvergelmir, and
another to the well Mímisbrunnr.
Creatures live
within Yggdrasil...
- 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...
- 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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wellsprings 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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Bilskirnir Breidablik Elivagar Fyris Wolds Gandvik Ginnungagap Hel
Hlidskjalf Hvergelmir Járnviðr Jötunheimr
Leipter River Kormet Midgard Muspelheim Náströnd Niðavellir...
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Snorri Sturluson's Gyl****inning, Gjöll
originates from the
wellspring Hvergelmir in Niflheim,
flowing through Ginnungagap, and
thence into the
worlds of...
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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...
- 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...
