"Hel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the grave. This primitive conception, of which the belief in a subterranean world of the dead is an extension, long survived among various races, e.g. the Scandinavians, who believed in the barrow as the abiding place of the dead, while they also had their conception of Hel and Valhalla, or among the Slavs, side by side with Christian conceptions.[1167] It also survived among the Celts, though another belief in the orbis alius had arisen. This can be shown from modern and ancient folk-belief ...
— The Religion of the Ancient Celts • J. A. MacCulloch
... "Hel—hello, Delia!" she began jerkily, wincing as the eyes opened and stared stupidly at the ring of anxious faces. "How ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon |
