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" Here she possesses a habitation protected by exceedingly high walls and strongly barred gates. Her hall is called Elvidnir ; Hunger is her table ; Starvation, her knife ; Delay, her man ; Slowness, her maid ; Precipice, her threshold ; Care, her bed ;... "
Norðurfari: Or, Rambles in Iceland - Page 193
by Pliny Miles - 1854 - 252 pages
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The Metropolitan, Volume 50

English literature - 1847 - 482 pages
...bred up in Jotunheim, and from divination learnt that they foreboded them no good. called Elvidnir. Hunger is her table : Starvation her knife ; Delay...Burning Anguish forms the hanging of her apartments. The one half of her body is livid ; the other half the colour of human flesh. She is easily recognized,...
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The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 50

1847 - 488 pages
...bred up in Jotunheim, and from divination learnt that they foreboded them no good. called Elvidnir. Hunger is her table : Starvation her knife ; Delay...Burning Anguish forms the hanging of her apartments. The one half of her body is livid ; the other half the colour of human flesh. She is easily recognized,...
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Northern Antiquities: Or, An Historical Account of the Manners, Customs ...

Paul Henri Mallet - Mythology, Norse - 1847 - 592 pages
...habitation protected by exceedingly high walls and strongly barred gates. Her hall is called Elvidnir ; Hunger is her table ; Starvation, her knife ; Delay,...threshold ; Care, her bed ; and Burning Anguish forms the hangings of her apartments. The one half of her body is livid, the other half the colour of human flesh....
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Northern Antiquities: Or, An Historical Account of the Manners, Customs ...

Paul Henri Mallet - Mythology, Norse - 1847 - 594 pages
...habitation protected by exceedingly high walls and strongly barred gates. Her hall is called Elvidnir ; Hunger is her table ; Starvation, her knife ; Delay,...threshold ; Care, her bed ; and Burning Anguish forms the hangings of her apartments. The one half of her body is livid, the other half the colour of human flesh....
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Shakespeare's Puck, and His Folkslore: Illustrated from the ..., Volume 1

William Bell - Fairies in art - 1852 - 348 pages
...habitation, protected by exceedingly high walls and strongly-barred gates. Her hall is called Elvidnir ; Hunger is her table ; Starvation, her knife ; Delay,...threshold ; Care, her bed ; and Burning Anguish forms the hangings of her apartments. The one-half of her body is livid (or black), the other half the colour...
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Norðurfari: Or, Rambles in Iceland

Pliny Miles - Iceland - 1854 - 360 pages
...monster grew to such size that he en<5rcled the whole earth, with his tail in his mouth. HELA (Death) *as cast by Odin into Niflheim ; and her abode is known...who fell in battle, were carried at once to Odin, in Valhalla—the hall of the slain ; and on this account Odin is called Val-father, or father of the...
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Norðurfari: Or, Rambles in Iceland

Pliny Miles - Iceland - 1854 - 298 pages
...encircled the whole earth, with his tail in his mouth. HELA (Death) was cast by Odin into Kiflheim; and her abode is known as Helheim, or Hel. Her habitation...strongly-barred gates. Her hall is called Elvidmir; Hunger ia her table; Starvation, her knife; Delay, her man; Slowness, -. her maid ; Precipice, her threshold...
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, System of universal knowledge, Volume 31

Encyclopaedia - 1855 - 400 pages
...habitation protected by exceedingly high walls and strongly barred gates. Her hall is called Elvidnir ; Hunger is her table; Starvation, her knife ; Delay,...threshold; Care, her bed; and Burning Anguish forms the hangings of her apartments. The one-half of her body is livid, the other half the colour of human flesh."...
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The Age of Fable, Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes

Thomas Bulfinch - Animals, Mythical - 1855 - 508 pages
...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 knife, Delay her...her maid, Precipice her threshold, Care her bed, and Burninganguish forms the hangings of her apartments. She may easily be recognized, for her body is...
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A Tour Twenty Years Ago

Charles Cavendish Clifford - Iceland - 1863 - 144 pages
...punishment. Listen to the account of her habitation given in the Edda. Her hall is called Elvidnir ; Hunger is her table ; Starvation her knife; Delay...threshold ; Care her bed ; and burning Anguish forms the hangings of her apartments. Now this is not altogether unlike the description given of the Infernal...
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