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Hvergelmir
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Search complete. 26 mentions across 12 episodes found for "Hvergelmir".
Oct 8, 2026
Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation)-Snorri Sturleson
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48:11ExpatriateNARRATOR
Then said Jafnhar, It was many ages before the earth was shaped that the mist world was made.
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48:17ExpatriateNARRATOR
And midmost within it lies the well that is called Vergelmir, from which spring the rivers called Svul, Gunthra, Fjorrm, Fimbatul, Slidr and Hrid, Srilger and Ilger, Vid Leiptr, Gul is hard by Hellgates.
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48:34ExpatriateNARRATOR
And Thridi said, Yet first was the world in the southern region, which is called Muspel.
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48:40ExpatriateNARRATOR
It is light and hot.
The Price of Wisdom Odin at the Well of Mimir
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7:06MattHOST
The Well of Urd, associated with fate.
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7:10MattHOST
The Well of, don't shoot me over this pronunciation, Hvergelmir, which was associated with the origin of the rivers.
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7:20MattHOST
And the Well of Mimir, associated with wisdom and memory.
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7:25MattHOST
And that's the one we're talking about today.
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Unknown podcast
Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation)-Snorri Sturleson
Sep 26 · 2 Mentions
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46:04ExpatriateNARRATOR
Earth was not found, nor ether heaven, a yawning gap, but grass was none.
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46:10ExpatriateNARRATOR
Then said Iafanhar, It was many ages before the earth was shaped that the mist world was made, and midmost within it lies the well that is called Hvergelmir, from which spring the rivers called Svu, Gunthra, Fjorum, Fimbatul, Slidr, and Hrid, Srylger and Ilger, Vid, Leiptr, Gu, is hard by hell gates.
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46:33ExpatriateNARRATOR
And Thridi said, Yet first was the world in the southern region, which is called Muspel.
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46:39ExpatriateNARRATOR
It is light and hot, that region is glowing and burning, and impassable to such as are outlanders and have not their holdings there.
1 HR 1 MIN LATER
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107:19ExpatriateNARRATOR
That tun is so great that all the champions become quite drunk from it." Then said Gungleri, "That is a wondrous proper goat for them.
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107:28ExpatriateNARRATOR
It must be an exceeding good tree from which she eats." Then spake Har, "Even more worthy of note is the hart Eikthyrni, which stands in Valhalla and bites from the limbs of the tree.
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107:40ExpatriateNARRATOR
And from his horns distills such abundant exudation that it comes down into Hvergelmir, and from thence fall those rivers called thus, Síð, Fíð, Sók, Sókin, Eikin, Svil, Gunthra, Fjórm, Fimbultul, Gipul, Güpul, Gumul, Garfimul.
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107:59ExpatriateNARRATOR
Those fall about the abodes of the Æsir.
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Unknown podcast
Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation)-Snorri Sturleson
Sep 26 · 2 Mentions
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48:56speaker_3UNKNOWN
Then said Jafnharr, It was many ages before the earth was shaped that the mist world was made.
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49:02speaker_3UNKNOWN
And midmost within it lies the well that is called Hvergelmir, from which spring the rivers called Svul, Gunthra, Fjorrm, Fimbatul, Slidr, and Hrid, Srylger and Ilger, Vid, Leiptr, Gu, is hard by Hellgates.
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49:19speaker_3UNKNOWN
And Thridi said, Yet first was the world in the southern region, which is called Muspel.
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49:25speaker_3UNKNOWN
It is light and hot.
2 HRS 1 MIN LATER
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170:00speaker_3UNKNOWN
And they who have broken oaths, and murderers, wade those rivers, even as it says here: I know a hall standing far from the sun, in Nostrand; the doors to northward are turned; Venom-drops fall down from the roof-holes; that hall is bordered with backs of serpents.
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170:18speaker_3UNKNOWN
There are doomed to wade the weltering streams men that are man-sworn and they that murderers are.
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170:25speaker_3UNKNOWN
But it is worse in Hvergelmir; there the cursed snake tears dead men's corpses.
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170:32speaker_3UNKNOWN
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Unknown podcast
Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation)-Snorri Sturleson
Sep 25 · 3 Mentions
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45:55ExpatriateNARRATOR
Then said Jafnhar, It was many ages before the earth was shaped that the mist world was made.
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46:01ExpatriateNARRATOR
And midmost within it lies the well that is called Hvergelmir, from which spring the rivers called Svul, Gunthra, Fjorm, Fimbatul, Slidr, and Hrid, Srylger and Ilger, Vid, Leiptr, Gu is hard by hell gates.
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46:18ExpatriateNARRATOR
And Thridi said, Yet first was the world in the southern region, which is called Muspel.
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46:24ExpatriateNARRATOR
It is light and hot, that region is glowing and burning, and impassable to such as are outlanders and have not their holdings there.
1 HR LATER
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106:59ExpatriateNARRATOR
And from her udders mead runs so copiously that she fills a tun every day.
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107:04ExpatriateNARRATOR
That tun is so great that all the champions become quite drunk from it." Then said Gungleri, "That is a wondrous proper goat for them.
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107:13ExpatriateNARRATOR
It must be an exceeding good tree from which she eats." Then spake Har, "Even more worthy of note is the hart Eikthyrni, which stands in Valhalla and bites from the limbs of the tree, and from his horns distils such abundant exudation that it comes down into Hvergelmir, and from thence fall those rivers called thus, Síð, Fíð, Súkon, Sökin, Eikin, Svöl, Gunthra, Fjórm, Fimbultul, Gipul, Güpul, Gumul, Garfimul.
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107:43ExpatriateNARRATOR
Those fall about the abodes of the Æsir.
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Unknown podcast
Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson-Sæmund Sigfusson, Snorri Sturleson
Sep 23 · 4 Mentions
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22:40Becky CookNARRATOR
Hodur shot it forth, but Frigg bewelled and Fensalir Valhall's calamity.
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22:45Becky CookNARRATOR
Understand ye yet or what? Bound she saw lying under Hvergelmir a monstrous form to Loki like.
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22:54Becky CookNARRATOR
There sits Sigyn for her consort's sake, not right glad.
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22:58Becky CookNARRATOR
Understand ye yet or what? Then the Vala knew the fatal bonds were twisting, most rigid bonds from entrails made.
6 HRS 19 MINS LATER
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401:47speaker_6NARRATOR
"But with what did he begin, or what was the beginning of things?" demanded Gangler.
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401:53speaker_6NARRATOR
"Hear," replied Har, "what is said in the Voluspa." 'Twas time's first dawn when naught yet was, nor sand nor sea nor cooling wave earth was not there, nor heaven above, naught save a void and yawning gulf, but verdure none.
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402:10speaker_6NARRATOR
"Many ages before the earth was made," added Gefn, "was Niflheim formed, in the middle of which lies the spring called Hvergelmir.
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402:20speaker_6NARRATOR
From which flow twelve rivers, Gjoll being the nearest to the gate of the abode of death.
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Unknown podcast
Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation)-Snorri Sturleson
Sep 17 · 1 Mention
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48:41ExpatriateNARRATOR
Then said Jafnhar, It was many ages before the earth was shaped that the mist world was made.
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48:47ExpatriateNARRATOR
And midmost within it lies the well that is called Hvergelmir, from which spring the rivers called Svul, Gunthra, Fjorum, Fimbatul, Slidr, and Hrid, Srylger and Ilger, Vid, Leiptr, Gu is hard by Helgates.
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49:04ExpatriateNARRATOR
And Thridi said, Yet first was the world in the southern region, which is called Muspel.
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49:10ExpatriateNARRATOR
It is light and hot.
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Unknown podcast
Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation)-Snorri Sturleson
Sep 13 · 1 Mention
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47:41ExpatriateNARRATOR
Then said Yafnhar, It was many ages before the earth was shaped that the mist world was made.
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48:17ExpatriateNARRATOR
And midmost within it lies the well that is called Vergelmir, from which spring the rivers called Svul, Gunthra, Fjorum, Fimbatul, Slidr, and Hrid, Srilger and Ilger, Vid Leiptr, Gul is hard by Hellgates.
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48:34ExpatriateNARRATOR
And Thridi said, Yet first was the world in the southern region, which is called Muspel.
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48:40ExpatriateNARRATOR
It is light and hot.
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Unknown podcast
Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation)-Snorri Sturleson
Sep 13 · 1 Mention
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48:24ExpatriateNARRATOR
Then said Yafnhar, It was many ages before the earth was shaped that the mist world was made.
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48:48ExpatriateNARRATOR
And midmost within it lies the well that is called Hvergelmir, from which spring the rivers called Svul, Gunthra, Fjorum, Fimbatul, Slidr, and Hrid, Srylger and Ilger, Vid, Leiptr, Gu is hard by Helgates.
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49:05ExpatriateNARRATOR
And Thridi said, Yet first was the world in the southern region, which is called Muspel.
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49:11ExpatriateNARRATOR
It is light and hot.
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Unknown podcast
Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson-Sæmund Sigfusson, Snorri Sturleson
Sep 11 · 4 Mentions
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22:10Becky CookNARRATOR
Hoder shot it forth; but Frigg bewailed and Fensalir Valhall's calamity.
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22:16Becky CookNARRATOR
Understand ye yet or what? Bound she saw lying under Hvergelmir a monstrous form to Loki like.
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22:24Becky CookNARRATOR
There sits Sigyn for her consort's sake, not right glad.
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22:28Becky CookNARRATOR
Understand ye yet or what? Then the Vala knew the fatal bonds were twisting, most rigid bonds from entrails made.
3 HRS 42 MINS LATER
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244:43Jeff BurkeNARRATOR
The pike, Andvari I am named, Oin was my father named, many a cataract have I passed.
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244:50Jeff BurkeNARRATOR
A luckless Norn in times of old decreed that in the water I should wade.
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244:56Jeff BurkeNARRATOR
Loki, Tell me, Andvari, if thou wilt enjoy life in the halls of men, what retribution gets the sons of mortals if with foul words they assail each other? Andvari, Cruel retribution get the sons of mortals who in Hvergelmir wade; for the false words they have against others uttered the punishments too long endure.
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245:20Jeff BurkeNARRATOR
Loki viewed all the gold that Andvari owned.
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