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The Battle of Hel (Polish: Obrona Helu, literally "the Defense of Hel") was a World War II engagement fought from 1 September to 2 October 1939 on the Hel Peninsula, of the Baltic Sea coast, between invading German forces and defending Polish units during the German invasion of Poland (also
We modern English speakers call the Christian concept of a land of damnation “Hell” because the concept was called hel or helle in Old English. [4] Presumably, hel / helle originally referred to the same kind of Germanic pagan underworld as the Norse Hel, and Christian missionaries to the Anglo-Saxons used the closest word they could find ...
Hel (1889) by Johannes Gehrts, pictured here with her hound Garmr. Hel (from Old Norse: hel, lit. 'underworld') is a female being in Norse mythology who is said to preside over an underworld realm of the same name, where she receives a portion of the dead. Hel is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional ...
May 21, 2024 · Hel, the daughter of Loki and the giantess Angrboða, governs the underworld in Norse mythology, ruling over the souls of those who did not die in battle. Source: The Viking Herald
But in the Old English translation, known as The Harrowing of Hell, the ruler of the land of the dead is called Hel and has feminine grammatical gender (seo Hel). Her power in her realm is nearly absolute: she quarrels with Satan, drives him off his own throne and imprisons him (Raffel, Poems and Prose from the Old English, pp. 183-189).
The term Hel (meaning "to bury," and "grave") is used in Norse mythology to refer to both the realm of the dead and to its queen. As a realm, Hel is described as a cold, shadowy place, inhabited by the souls of individuals who died in a so-called 'cowardly manner' (i.e., not in battle).
Article History. Hel, in Norse mythology, originally the name of the world of the dead; it later came to mean the goddess of death. Hel was one of the children of the trickster god Loki, and her kingdom was said to lie downward and northward.
