Á Náströndum er mikill salr ok illr, ok horfa í norðr dyrr, hann er ok ofinn allr ormahryggjum sem vandahús, en ormahöfuð öll vitu inn í húsit ok blása eitri, svá at eptir salnum renna eitrár, ok vaða þær ár eiðrofar ok morðvargar, svá sem hér segir:
Sal veit ek standa
sólu fjarri
Náströndu á,
norðr horfa dyrr.
Falla eitrdropar
inn of ljóra.
Sá er undinn salr
orma hryggjum.
Skulu þar vaða
þunga strauma
menn meinsvara
ok morðvargar.
En í Hvergelmi er verst:
Þar kvelr Níðhöggr
nái framgengna. Gylfaginning 52, EB's edition
On Nástrand [Strand of the Dead] is a great hall and evil, and its doors face to the north: it is all woven of serpent-backs like a wattle-house; and all the snake-heads turn into the house and blow venom, so that along the hall run rivers of venom; and they who have broken oaths, and murderers, wade those rivers, even as it says here:
náströnd, norse, mythology, nástrǫnd, corpse, shore, place, where, níðhöggr, lives, chews, corpses, afterlife, those, guilty, murder, adultery, oath, breaking, illustration, 1895, lorenz, frølich, contents, orthography, poetic, edda, prose, edda, also, referen. In Norse mythology Nastrǫnd Corpse Shore is a place in Hel where Nidhoggr lives and chews on corpses It is the afterlife for those guilty of murder adultery and oath breaking An illustration of Nastrond 1895 by Lorenz Frolich Contents 1 Orthography 2 Poetic Edda 3 Prose Edda 4 See also 5 ReferencesOrthography EditIn the standardized Old Norse orthography the name was spelled Nastrǫnd which in 11th century Old West Norse was pronounced ˈnɑːˌstrɔnd In Modern Icelandic the letter ǫ is replaced by o and Nastrond is pronounced ˈnauˌstrœnt Poetic Edda EditThe Voluspa says Sal sa hon standa solo fiarri Nastrǫndu a nordr horfa dyrr Fello eitrdropar inn um liora Sa er undinn salr orma hryggiom Sa hon thar vada thunga strauma menn meinsvara ok mordvarga ok thannz annars glepr eyraruno THar saug Nidhǫggr nai framgengna sleit vargr vera Vitod er enn eda hvat Voluspa 38 39 Dronke s edition dd A hall she saw standing remote from the sun on Dead Body Shore Its door looks north There fell drops of venom in through the roof vent That hall is woven of serpents spines She saw there wading onerous streams men perjured and wolfish murderers and the one who seduces another s close trusted wife There Malice Striker sucked corpses of the dead the wolf tore men Do you still seek to know And what Voluspa 38 39 Dronke s translation dd Prose Edda EditSnorri Sturluson quotes this part of Voluspa in the Gylfaginning section of his Prose Edda He uses the plural of the word Nastrandir Corpse Shores A Nastrondum er mikill salr ok illr ok horfa i nordr dyrr hann er ok ofinn allr ormahryggjum sem vandahus en ormahofud oll vitu inn i husit ok blasa eitri sva at eptir salnum renna eitrar ok vada thaer ar eidrofar ok mordvargar sva sem her segir Sal veit ek standa solu fjarri Nastrondu a nordr horfa dyrr Falla eitrdropar inn of ljora Sa er undinn salr orma hryggjum Skulu thar vada thunga strauma menn meinsvara ok mordvargar dd En i Hvergelmi er verst THar kvelr Nidhoggr nai framgengna Gylfaginning 52 EB s edition dd On Nastrand Strand of the Dead is a great hall and evil and its doors face to the north it is all woven of serpent backs like a wattle house and all the snake heads turn into the house and blow venom so that along the hall run rivers of venom and they who have broken oaths and murderers wade those rivers even as it says here I know a hall standing far from the sun In Nastrand the doors to northward are turned Venom drops falls down from the roof holes That hall is bordered with backs of serpents There are doomed to wade the weltering streams Men that are mansworn and they that murderers are dd But it is worst in Hvergelmir There the cursed snake tears dead men s corpses Gylfaginning 52 Brodeur s translation dd See also EditHel being Hel realm Niflheim NiflhelReferences EditBrodeur Arthur Gilchrist transl 1916 The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson New York The American Scandinavian Foundation Available online Dronke Ursula ed 1997 The Poetic Edda Mythological Poems Oxford Oxford University Press ISBN 0 19 811181 9 Eysteinn Bjornsson ed Snorra Edda Formali amp Gylfaginning Textar fjogurra meginhandrita 2005 Available online Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Nastrond amp oldid 1103203423, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
