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Free as far as we know from definite physical location. Details of the original northern conception, equated and blended with the Scriptural, are possibly sometimes to be seen colouring the references to Christian hell. A celebrated example is the reference in Judith to the death of Holofernes, which recalls remarkably certain features in Völuspá. Cf. Judith 115: wyrmum bewunden, and 119: of ðam wyrmsele with Völ. 36 sá's undinn salr orma hryggjum: which translated into O.E. would be se is wunden sele wyrma hrycgum.

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