In Norse mythology, the human survivors of Ragnarök hide in Hoddmímis holt.
The Vafþrúðnismál names Líf and Lífþrasir as the human pair who survive the destruction by hiding in Hoddmímis holt. They live on morning dew and later repopulate the renewed world. The name is often translated as “Mímir’s forest” or “Mímir’s wood,” although its precise meaning and identification have been discussed by scholars.
The story supplies a survival motif within Ragnarök. The gods and the wider world undergo catastrophic change, but human life is not entirely erased. Líf and Lífþrasir emerge after the destruction and become ancestors of a new human population.
Hoddmímis holt should not be confused with Mímir’s well, Mímisbrunnr. Nor is it simply another name for Járnviðr, the Ironwood associated with giantesses and wolves in other myths. These similar-sounding locations belong to different episodes of the Norse cosmos.