InNorse mythology,Nidafjöll (Old Norse:Niðafjǫll,[ˈnɪðafjɔlː];lit. 'Nida-fell') is a location in the northernunderworld. Niðafjöll is the site from which thedragonNidhogg comes. According toSnorri Sturluson, the good and virtuous people will live here in a golden palace afterRagnarök, despite its proximity toHel.[1][2]
Niðafjöll is mentioned inVöluspá (verse 66) from thePoetic Edda:
Þar kømr inn dimmi dreki fljúgandi, naðr fránn, neðan fráNiðafjǫllum. Berr sér í fjǫðrum —flýgr vǫll yfir— Níðhǫggr nái—
There comes the dim dragon flying, a gleaming adder, below from theNida-fell. Carrying in between the feathers —flying the land over— Nidhogg corpses does—.
Fell is an old word for mountain and highland, but the prefixnida- is unclear. A direct cognate is unknown, but it is speculated to be related toSwedish:nedan, the "waning" face of the moon, as opposed tony ("new"), the "emerging" face of the moon. Thus a potential direct translation could be "waning mountains", or rather, "mountains of waning". Other suggestions have been something like "dark mountains".
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