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Hel

proper nounproper nounattested in dialogue

The goddess of the realm of the unheroic dead, a daughter of Loki by the jotun Angrboða.

proper noun

  1. 1

    The goddess of the realm of the unheroic dead, a daughter of Loki by the jotun Angrboða.

  2. 2

    The realm of the dead who did not die in combat, ruled by the goddess and located in Niflheim (one of the Nine Realms).

Etymology

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

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the female given name Helen.

    They call me Hel, they call me Stacey / They call me "her", they call me Jane

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).