Dec 12, 2014

Hell, Norway

Pamela from Norway wrote me that sometimes in Hell the temperatures can reach -25°C, so Hell can be frozen :)

Hell is a village in Norway.  The village of Hell has become a minor tourist attraction because of its name, as visitors often have their photograph taken in front of the station sign.  The name Hell stems from the Old Norse word hellir, which means "overhang" or "cliff cave". It has a more used homonym in modern Norwegian that means "luck". The Old Norse word Hel is the same as today's English Hell, and as a proper noun, Hel was the ruler of Hel. In modern Norwegian the word for hell is helvete

source: wikipedia

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