Talk:Niflheim

message: In the article Niflheim, it says that Hel is located within Niflheim, but on the Hel (realm) article, it says that they are completely different places.  This is contradictory information; please verify & fix.  --Wykypydya 01:45, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction with [[Hel (realm)]] 

message: I found this page by accident looking for “Nephilim” (in Jewish tradition the Nephilim were the offspring on angels and humans). It should not harm anything to have the “Did you mean "Nephilim"?” tag at the top of the page.174.25.129.229 (talk) 03:19, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is bad at the moment and needs some love; a rewrite would be the best approach. The same goes for our really terrible jötunn article. However, merging it to Hel (location) is not the answer. The website—"Timeless Myths"—you're citing from is also very bad. The solution to this is to simply sit down the usual suspects (the handbooks of Rudolf Simek, John Lindow, and Andy Orchard) and hammer out a better article here. I've got some other projects on the burner here, but I might be able to step in and clean this up. :bloodofox: (talk) 17:30, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Nephilim Tag Request

message: I think this section may not be accurate. At the least, it does not agree with other wikipedia articles which cite more sources. After some checking, I think the source for these statements may be a roll-playing game called Blood Brothers http://bloodbrothersgame.wikia.com/wiki/Blood_Brothers_Wiki
"Two classes of legendary being were often labeled by scholars as the inhabitants of Niflheim — the Hrímthursar, widely known as the Frost Giants (or Rime-Giants) of Norse legend; and the Niflungar ("children of the mist"), a race of treasure-hoarding spirits better remembered as the Nibelungs, the titular creatures in Richard Wagner's opera Der Ring des Nibelungen."
I cannot find another source which names the Frost Giants as "Hrimthursar" except for the Wikipedia article on Hrimthurs [] which I also find suspect. The only mention I can find on other mythology sites for "Hrimthurs" is the name of an individual giant who, with the help of his magical horse, built the walls of Asgard http://www.timelessmyths.com/norse/giants.html#Hrimthurs. Based on the he Wikipedia article on Jötunn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_giantsarticle the proper name for Frost Giants is "Jötnar" and they live in Jötunheim rather than Niflheim.
I have a similar objection to the section's definition of Niflungar. Wikipedia's article on Nibelung http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibelungs features a scholarly discussion on possible meanings for the name. It is usually used as a Germanic name for the Burgundian royal family but there is a tradition that it may refer to a race of dwarves. In either case, there is no reputable source I can find that supports a definition of "treasure hoarding spirits" of the idea that these beings live in Niflheim. 69.49.171.86 (talk) 03:39, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is bad at the moment and needs some love; a rewrite would be the best approach. The same goes for our really terrible jötunn article. However, merging it to Hel (location) is not the answer. The website—"Timeless Myths"—you're citing from is also very bad. The solution to this is to simply sit down the usual suspects (the handbooks of Rudolf Simek, John Lindow, and Andy Orchard) and hammer out a better article here. I've got some other projects on the burner here, but I might be able to step in and clean this up. :bloodofox: (talk) 17:30, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inhabitants of Niflheim 

message: Greetings, 
I was actually looking for information on "Niflheim", an otome mobile app game when I found this page. Which is cool and all, but I felt that at the least, there could be a mention of the game on the page? The background information here really made the game click, since Niflheim is the realm in which the game takes place, only it feels more like an underworld instead of an ice world. 
The app is available in the Google Play Store for free, and is one of many "Shall We Date?" otome games. 
I hope you'll consider the addition, perhaps in a popular culture section as had been done with some other articles in this section. :)
Thank you for the information, and all the best!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.6.53.142 (talk) 06:21, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for Edit 

message: Blurry fuzzy looking place just like earth correct if I'm wrong but isn't where farmer and stuff go those who weren't chosen for valhalla by the valkeries . Oh how little piggies will grunt . 70.27.141.69 (talk) 07:11, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blurry fuzzy looking place just like earth 

message: hel is for naughty NAUGHTY vikings 85.92.165.65 (talk) 14:28, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  viking