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In Norse mythology, Gnipahellir (mountaintop cave) is an overhanging cliff or cave. This is the location of Garmr, the hound who guards the gates of Hel, the Norse realm of the dead. Garmr often featured chained here until the onset of Ragnarök.[1]

References

  1. ^ Garm (Norse Mythology: Gods and Creatures)

Other sources

  • Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist (1916) Snorri Sturluson's The Prose Edda (The American-Scandinavian Foundation, CreateSpace Independent Publishing. 2011) ISBN 978-1461087892
  • Lincoln, Bruce (1991) Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology and Practice (University of Chicago Press) ISBN 0-226-48199-9.
  • Orchard, Andy (1997) Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend (Cassell) ISBN 0-304-34520-2
  • Simek, Rudolf (1996) Dictionary of Northern Mythology (translated by Angela Hall. first published by Alfred Kröner Verlag in 1984. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer)ISBN 0-85991-513-1
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