Hindarfjall orHindafjall[1] ("Hind mountain") is the mountain whereBrynhildr lives in theVölsung cycle.
InSnorri Sturluson's account of the Völsung cycle (Skáldskaparmál),Sigurðr first meets Brynhildr, whom he finds asleep, in a building on a mountain whose name is not given. Later, Brynhildr is said to live on Hindafjall, in a hall surrounded by wavering flames (vafrlogi). Sigurðr rides through them and asks for Brynhildr's hand, having taken the appearance ofGunnarr.
In the other sources (Sigrdrífumál,Völsunga saga), Hindarfjall is mentioned in relation with the first encounter: after killingFáfnir andReginn, Sigurðr rides up onto Hindarfjall and goes south toward Frakkland. Then he sees a great light on a mountain. There stands a wall of shield, and behind itSigrdrífa-Brynhildr[2] asleep. The name of the place where the second meeting takes place, when Sigurðr rides through the flames after he and Gunnar exchanged forms, is not given.
Hindarfjall is also mentioned inFáfnismál, where the birds, which Sigurðr can understand after tasting Fáfnir's blood, talk about a hall on Hindarfjall, surrounded with flames, where Sigrdrífa sleeps.
InHelreið Brynhildar, it is calledSkatalundr, and there is an obscure stanza that Sigurðr first meet Brynhildr in her foster-father's home.