“In this hall good and well-minded men shall dwell. Nastrand is a large and terrible hall, and its doors open to the north. It is built of serpents wattled together, and all the heads of the serpents turn into the hall and vomit forth venom that flows in streams along the hall, and in these streams wade perjurers and murderers. So it is here said: A hall I know standing Far from the sun On the strand of dead bodies.”

— The Prose Edda (The Younger Edda), THE FOOLING OF GYLFE. XVII · served from our shelf