 | Paul Henri Mallet - Mythology, Norse - 1847 - 594 pages
...encircles the whole earth. Hela he cast into Niflheim, and gave her power over nine worlds (regions), into which she distributes those who are sent to her, that is to say, all who die through sickness or old age. Here she possesses a habitation protected by exceedingly high... | |
 | Paul Henri Mallet, I. A. Blackwell - Mythology, Norse - 1847 - 592 pages
...encircles the whole earth. Hela he cast into Niflheim, and gave her power over nine worlds (regions), into which she distributes those who are sent to her, that is to say, all who die through sickness or old age. Here she possesses a habitation protected by exceedingly high... | |
 | 1852 - 814 pages
...Ifela, the daughter ol Lake and Aiiqurbodi, a monster of Jotunheim, who was hurled into Niffle Tieitn by Odin, when Loke dared bring her to Asgard, the...maid; Patience, her threshold ; Sickness, her bed ; Burning AngmsJi and Blasphemy, its curtains. One half of the body is livid, and the other the color... | |
 | William Bell - Fairies in art - 1852 - 348 pages
...whom All-fadir cast into Niflheim, and gave her power over nine worlds, into which she distributes all those who are sent to her ; that is to say, all those who die through sickness or old age. Here she possesses a habitation, protected by exceedingly high walls and... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1855 - 400 pages
...encircles the whole earth. ' Hela' he cast into Niflheim, and gave her power over nine worlds (regions), into which she distributes those who are sent to her, that is to say, all who die through sickness or old age. Here she possesses a habitation protected by exceedingly high... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Animals, Mythical - 1855 - 508 pages
...encircles the whole earth. Hela he cast into Niffleheim, and gave her power over nine worlds or regions, into which she distributes those who are sent to her ; that is, all who die of sickness or old age. Her hall is called Elvidnir. Hunger is her table, Starvation her... | |
 | Johann Georg Heck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 804 pages
...Hela, the daughter oi Loke and Angurbodi, a monster of Jotunheim, who was hurled into Niffle Jieim by Odin, when Loke dared bring her to Asgard, the...maid; Patience, her threshold ; Sickness, her bed ; Burning Anguish and Blasphemy, its curtains. One half of the body is livid, and the other the color... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Christianity and other religions - 1871 - 548 pages
...encircles the whole earth. Hela he cast into Niflheim, and gave her power over nine worlds (regions), into which she distributes those who are sent to her, that is to say, all who die through sickness or old age. Here she possesses a habitation protected by exceedingly high... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Christianity and other religions - 1871 - 544 pages
...encircles the whole earth. Hela he cast into Niflheim, and gave her power over nine worlds (regions), into which she distributes those who are sent to her, that is to say, all who die through sickness or old age. Here she possesses a habitation protected by exceedingly high... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Religions - 1888 - 570 pages
...encircles the whole earth. Hela he cast into Niflheim, and gave her power over nine worlds (regions), into which she distributes those who are sent to her, that is to say, all who die through sickness or old age. Here she possesses a habitation protected by exceedingly high... | |
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But the monster has grown to such an enormous size that, holding his tail in his mouth, he encircles the whole earth. 
