Nastrond
The Scandinavian and Icelandic Hell, said to be of an icy temperature. It lies in the lowest depths of Niflheim; it is a "dark abode far from the sun;" its gates face "the cutting north;" "its walls are formed of wreathed snakes, and their venom is ever falling like rain." It is surrounded by dark and poisonous streams, and Nidhog, the great dragon, who dwells beneath the central root of Ygdrassil, torments and gnaws the dead. Here it is that Loki is chained to a splintered rock, where the venom of the snake Skada falls on him unceasingly; and it is believed that his shuddering is the cause of earthquakes.