Gjöll
Gjöll (Old Norse: Gjǫll: "the noisy, the showering") is the river of the dead on the edge of the Hel underworld in Norse mythology .
Dead river Gjöll
According to Snorri Sturluson, Gjöll rises in the Grímnismál of the Hvergelmir spring and, according to the Gylfaginning, flows as a border river along the human world Midgard and the underworld Helheim , near the Helgrind fence , before disappearing completely into the underworld. The golden bridge over the Gjallarbrú , guarded by the giantess Móðguðr (Modgud) of the Jötun family , spans the river that belongs to the Élivágar family. The hellhound Garm watches in front of the entrance to Helheim and lets all newcomers who have died of illnesses and old age pass who want to go to the Hel's realm of the dead.
Steinplatte Gjöll
According to Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning , Gjöll is also the name of a stone slab to which the Fenris Wolf is bound. He tears himself away from this at the end of the world, Ragnarok . The name may have something to do with the howling of the wolf. There is no connection with the river.
Source texts
Grímnismál
Grímnismál 28
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Gylfaginning
- Gylfaginning 4
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- Gylfaginning 49
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literature
- Rudolf Simek : Lexicon of Germanic Mythology (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 368). Kröner, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-520-36801-3 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Simek: Lexicon of Germanic Mythology (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 368). Kröner, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-520-36801-3 , p. 131.
- ^ Rudolf Simek: Lexicon of Germanic Mythology (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 368). Kröner, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-520-36801-3 , p. 131.