"Avengeress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... weft of Fate. One of these fays is sometimes called Held, and described as black, or as half dark half white—like Hel, the Mistress of the Nether World. That German fay is also called Rachel, clearly a contraction of Rach-Hel, i.e. the Avengeress Hel. ...
— The Younger Edda - Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda • Snorre |
