Náströnd

Náströnd is the place furthest from the light on this trail. Völuspá describes a hall standing far from the sun, its doors turned north, venom dripping in through its openings, woven of serpents’ backs; the seeress sees murderers and oath-breakers wading there. The entry notes that in the poem this is something she sees, while Snorri’s prose turns it into a fate. Distance from the sun is the first thing the poem says about it.