Editing Niðavellir

{{short description|Home of the Dwarves in Norse Mythology}}
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In [[Norse cosmology]], '''Niðavellir''' (anglic. as '''Nidavellir'''; probable compound of [[Old Norse|O.N.]] ''Nið'' – "new moon", "the wane of the moon" (perhaps related to ''niðr'' – "down") + ''Vellir'' (pl. of ''völlr'') – "fields": ''Dark Fields'', ''Downward Fields''), also called '''Myrkheimr''' (''Myrkheimr'', [[Old Norse|O.N.]] compd. of ''myrkr'' – "darkness" + ''heimr'' – "home": ''the world of darkness'', ''Dark Abode''),<ref>McConnell, Winder. "The Nibelungen Tradition: An Encyclopedia" Routledge, Sept. 5, 2013. pg. 101</ref><ref>Hollander, Lee M. "The Poetic Edda: Volume 1" University of Texas Press, March 1, 2010.</ref> is the home of the [[Norse dwarves|Dwarves]].<ref>[http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Places/Place/435199 ''Nidavellir'' (AncientWorlds LLC)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111231173207/http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Places/Place/435199 |date=2011-12-31 }}</ref>

==''Völuspá''==
It is mentioned in the [[Völuspá]]:

''Stóð fyr norðan, / á Niðavöllom / salr úr gulli / Sindra ættar''

(Stood to the north, a dark field, Halls of gold, [[Sindri (mythology)|Sindri]]'s Clan").

One interpretation of the above verse would read like this:

Before you reach the north ([[Niflheim]] being the world furthest to the north), A dark dwelling stands (The dwarf world), In halls of gold, Sindri's bloodline lives.

Sindri was a famous dwarf. And ættar means bloodline, or in this case most likely kin or tribe.

Niðavellir has often been interpreted as one of the [[Norse cosmology#Nine Worlds|Nine Worlds]] of Norse legend. The problem is that both Niðavellir and Svartalfheim are mentioned, and it is unclear if the sixth world is a world of dwarfs or one of [[Svartálfar|black elves]].

The dwarfs' world is mentioned in the ''[[Prose Edda]]'' by [[Snorri Sturluson]] as ''Svartálfaheimr''.

==See also==
*[[Brokkr]]
*[[Eitri]]

==References==
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==Other sources==
*Faulkes, Anthony (trans. and ed.) (1987) ''Edda of Snorri Sturluson'' (Everyman's Library) {{ISBN|0-460-87616-3}}
*[[John Lindow|Lindow, John]] (2001) ''Handbook of Norse mythology'' (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio) {{ISBN|1-57607-217-7}}
*[[Andy Orchard|Orchard, Andy]] (1997) ''Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend'' (Cassell) {{ISBN|0-304-34520-2}}
*[[Rudolf Simek|Simek, Rudolf]] (2007) translated by Angela Hall. ''Dictionary of Northern Mythology''  (D.S. Brewer) {{ISBN|0-85991-513-1}}

==External links==
*[http://www.voluspa.org/poeticedda.htm ''The Poetic Edda''   (1923) Henry Adams Bellows, translator  (New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation)]
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