Hel - Arwenn Necker

Perna Studios is very excited to announce our tenth trading card set entitled Classic Mythology III: Goddesses (release date Summer of 2018). This set will focus on Goddesses from timeless Classic Mythologies that we have all come to love and enjoy during our lifetime. The mythologies spotlighted in this set are Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Celtic, Native American, Japanese and African.


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This awesome sketch art card of Hel from Norse Mythology is drawn by the very talented artist Arwenn Necker for our Classic Mythology III trading card set.




Hel - In Norse Mythology, Hel was the Daughter of Loki and goddess of the underworld (keeper of the dead), Niflheim. She was thrown into Niflheim by Odin, who decreed that she must rule over men who died of sickness or old age. She was frightening to look at. In some accounts she reclines on a bed called Disease and half of her body is rotting and decayed. In other accounts half of her face is flesh and half is blank. In other accounts half of her face is flesh and half is blue. In the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, her appearance is described as half-black/decayed and half-flesh colored, and as further having a gloomy, down-cast appearance. The Scandinavian word Hel originally simply meant the place where the dead go, but this became personified into the goddess Hel. The English word, Hell, naturally derives from the Scandinavian. She had playing key role in the attempted resurrection of the god Balder.




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