• In Norse mythology, Hvergelmir (Old Norse: [ˈxwerˌɡelmez̠]; "bubbling boiling spring") is a major spring. Hvergelmir is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled...
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    primordial ice and cold, with the frozen rivers of Élivágar and the well of Hvergelmir, from which come all the rivers. According to Gylfaginning, Niflheim was...
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    locations; one to the well Urðarbrunnr in the heavens, one to the spring Hvergelmir, and another to the well Mímisbrunnr. Creatures live within Yggdrasil...
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  • Niflheim from which the Élivágar find their source in the wellspring Hvergelmir, began to fill the void. It then combined with the life-giving fire and...
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    hall, and bites from Lærâd’s branches; from his horns fall drops into Hvergelmir, whence all waters rise:— —Grímnismál (25, 26), Thorpe's translation Under...
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    wells existing beneath three roots of Yggdrasil, the other two being Hvergelmir, located beneath a root in Niflheim, and Urðarbrunnr. In the Poetic Edda...
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    many Eddic poems. Also the name of a serpent found in the wellspring of Hvergelmir. Mallory, James P.; Adams, Douglas Q. (1997). Encyclopedia of Indo-European...
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  • Bilskirnir Breidablik Elivagar Fyris Wolds Gandvik Ginnungagap Hel Hlidskjalf Hvergelmir Járnviðr Jötunheimr Leipter River Kormet Midgard Muspelheim Náströnd Niðavellir...
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    not enter it—and the foggy land of Niflheim. In Niflheim was a spring, Hvergelmir, and from it flow numerous rivers. Together these rivers, known as Élivágar...
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    reach into three distant, different lands; the other two wells being Hvergelmir, located beneath a root in Niflheim, and Mímisbrunnr, located beneath...
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