"My mug will be called Hunger. [...] This I will call Famine. And my bed will be called Agony. (Neil Gaiman)"

"Leave me in my palace of pain! (Beowulf: The Video Game)"

"I am only myself, Hel, daughter of Angrboda and Loki. [...] And I like the dead most of all. They are simple things, …"

"She is half black and half skin color, so she is easy to recognize and rather grim and sinister looking. (Snorri Stur…"

"Hel he cast into Niflheimr and gave her power over the nine worlds, that she should assign all the abodes among those…"

"Do you know it? The face, neck, arms, chest, all pink. But below the waist, every bit of his flesh was putrid and rot…"

"No one can defeat death. Only honor stands between Hel and the righteous hand of Odin. (Beowulf: The Video Game)"

"Those who were on their daughter's right saw a beautiful little girl, while those on her left tried not to look at he…"

"This child will rule the darkest and deepest of places, and the dead of all nine worlds. She will be the queen of tho…"

"This day has the color of the grave, thinks King Hrothgar, staring sadly at the angry sea and imagining the gray clot…"