Norse mythology Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia as the Nordic folklore of the modern period. The ...

, Sliðr is a river in Hel, the land of the dead. Glaciers pour into it from the freezing well of

Hvergelmir Hvergelmir (Old Norse "bubbling boiling spring"Orchard (1997:93)) is an important primal wellspring in Norse mythology. Hvergelmir is attested in the ''Poetic Edda'', compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the ''Prose Ed ...

, its waters are full of knives and swords, and it flows through "valleys of venom", according to the Eddas.

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Rivers in Norse mythology {{Norse-myth-stub fr:Slidr