What is the name of the hall of the goddess Hel?

The hall of the goddess Hel is called Éljúðnir, commonly Anglicized as Eljudnir.

Éljúðnir is Hel’s hall in Niflheim, the misty realm associated with the dead. The name is often interpreted as “sprayed with snowstorms” or “damp with sleet or rain,” reinforcing the hall’s bleak and inhospitable setting. It is described in chapter 34 of Snorri Sturluson’s Gylfaginning, part of the Prose Edda.

The hall’s surrounding details make it less like a glorious divine residence and more like an embodiment of illness, hardship, and death. Its threshold is called Fallandaforað, “falling to peril”; its bed is Kör, or “sick-bed”; and its curtains are Blikjandaböl, meaning “gleaming disaster.” Hel’s dish is named Hunger and her knife Famine, while servants called Ganglati and Ganglöt are associated with sluggishness.

Éljúðnir is easily confused with Valhalla or Fólkvangr. Valhalla is Odin’s hall for many slain warriors, while Fólkvangr is Freyja’s field, which receives another portion of the battle-dead. Éljúðnir belongs specifically to Hel’s underworld realm and is connected with those who die from sickness or old age.