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

The hall where the goddess Hel rules is called Éljúðnir.

Éljúðnir appears in chapter 34 of Snorri Sturluson’s Gylfaginning, part of the Prose Edda. It is described as Hel’s hall in Niflheim, the cold realm associated with the dead. The name is often translated with imagery such as “sprayed with snowstorms” or “damp with sleet or rain,” reinforcing the hall’s bleak atmosphere.

The same description gives Éljúðnir several grim features. Its threshold is Fallandaforað, meaning something like “falling to peril”; Hel’s bed is called Kör, or “sick bed”; and the bed curtains are Blikjandaböl, often interpreted as “gleaming disaster.” These names make the hall feel like a place of sickness, danger, and unavoidable mortality.

A frequent mistake is answering Niflheim or Helheim. Those names refer to a realm or destination associated with the dead, while Éljúðnir is specifically the hall. Valhalla is also unrelated: it is Odin’s hall for selected warriors, not Hel’s residence.