Auden’s Blessing
The already endless white ice field now resembled a vast labyrinth.
If I was correct, we had come here to find the venomous dragon Nidhogg. One of the three roots of the World Tree lay here, and since the beginning of the ages, Nidhogg had gnawed at its roots. After the world was reborn, it was captured by Hel, the ruler of Helheim, and kept as her pet. Helheim stood to the west of this frozen wasteland. It was said that among the Nine Worlds, some of the souls of the dead would travel to Valhalla in Asgard, while the rest came here.