Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by A. S. Byatt

Author:A. S. Byatt [Byatt, A. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Literary, Fairy Tales; Folk Tales; Legends & Mythology, Gods; Norse, End of the World, Mythology; Norse, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9780802129925
Google: G6aoZwEACAAJ
Amazon: 0802129927
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2012-02-07T05:00:00+00:00

Hel

Nine days and nights Hermodur rode the eight-legged horse through the kingdom of death, along valleys and ashen paths where there was no light, only grey on grey, solids and shadows, and no sound except the steady tread of the horse hooves. He came to the river, Giöll, which surrounds Hel’s home, and is spanned by a golden bridge. This was kept by a giant porter, Mödgud. She stopped Hermodur and asked him why he was there. His single horse, she said, made more noise than all the dead who had earlier ridden across. And his colour was wrong. Too much blood.

Hermodur said he was seeking his dead brother, Baldur. Mödgud told him that Baldur had ridden over the bridge not long ago. And whether he alarmed her, or whether she pitied him, she let him cross the bridge and ride on in the dark towards Hel.

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