Gnipahellir (Gnipa cave) is acave inNorse mythology. Gnipahellir is the home ofGarmr, thehellhound who guards the gates ofHel, the Norse realm of the dead. Garmr is often featured chained here until the onset ofRagnarök, at which time his bindings break and he runs free. Reference to Gnipahellir appears inVǫluspá, Prophecy of theVölva, one of the poems of thePoetic Edda.^[1][2]

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• Lincoln, Bruce (1991)Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology and Practice (University of Chicago Press)ISBN 0-226-48199-9.
• Orchard, Andy (1997)Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend (Cassell)ISBN 0-304-34520-2
• Simek, Rudolf (1996)Dictionary of Northern Mythology (translated by Angela Hall. first published by Alfred Kröner Verlag in 1984. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer)ISBN 0-85991-513-1

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