Niflheim

[ niv-uhl-heym ]

nounScandinavian Mythology.
  1. a place of eternal cold, darkness, and fog, ruled over by Hel: abode of those who die of illness or old age.

Origin of Niflheim

1
<Old Norse Niflheimr, equivalent to nifl- (cognate with Old English nifol darkness, Old High German nebal mist, cloud, Latin nebula (see nebula)) + heimr world, home

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How to use Niflheim in a sentence

  • That's why those big dunes, out there, are the best Niflheim has in the way of mountains.

    Uller Uprising | Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
  • When a geek prince hired out as a laborer for a year on Niflheim, he did so for only one purpose—to learn Terran technologies.

    Uller Uprising | Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
  • I have an idea of the sort of garbled reports these spies of his who spend a year on Niflheim as laborers bring back.

    Uller Uprising | Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
  • "I believe he thinks Niflheim is our home world," von Schlichten replied.

    Uller Uprising | Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
  • He built at least a dozen of them on Niflheim, to use in activating volcanoes and bringing ore-bearing lava to the surface.

    Uller Uprising | Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr

British Dictionary definitions for Niflheim

Niflheim

/ (ˈnɪvəlˌheɪm) /


noun
  1. Norse myth the abode of the dead

Origin of Niflheim

1
Old Norse, literally: mist home

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