Etymology

Hel

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Today it means: The goddess of the realm of the unheroic dead, a daughter of Loki by the jotun Angrboða. Full definition →

Old Norse hel
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  1. Old Norse · derived fromhel
  2. English todayHel

From Old Norse hel. Cognate with Old English hell (“hell”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.