(also Hela) Norse chthonic deity. Daughter of Loki and the giantess Angurboda, Sister of the Wolf Fenrir and the World-serpent Jormungand. Ruler of the underworld (Hel or Niflheim). Lives in a hall called Eljudnir ("Misery"), and is served by Ganglati and Ganglot ("Slow moving").

goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld

(religion) the world of the dead; "he didn't want to go to hell when he died"

(hayl) [death] The daughter of Loki, ruler of the kingdom of the dead. She is represented as half blue, half white

In Norse mythology, Hel (sometimes Anglicized or Latinized as Hela) is the queen of Hel, the Norse underworld, and she lives in Eliudnir.

In Norse mythology, the realm Hel shares a name with its ruler, Hel. As described in Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda it is a place thronged with the shivering and shadowy spectres of those who have died ingloriously of disease or in old age. Hel is also home to dishonourable people who have broken oaths.