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Originally Posted by Korwin
Maybe I get my myths confused, but how would Muspelheim be different from Hellheim?
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Hel is the underworld, the realm of the dead, the place where the kind of losers who don't make it into Valhalla because they're cowards end up in.
Muspel is the fiery realm of the fire giants. It's essentially the polar opposite of Nieflheim : where Niefel giants embody glaciers and try to bring about an endless winter, Muspel giants represent volcanoes and try to burn out the world.
The only way those 2 realms are any close is if you inject a dose of Christianity into it and equate Hel with Hell. The two have nothing in common, however. Hel is closer to the Roman Hades : a realm of shadows, illusions, darkness and nothingness. Not a lake of fire and persecution.
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