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{{short description|Mythical cave in Norse mythology}}
'''Gnipahellir''' (''Gnipa cave'') is a [[cave]] in [[Norse mythology]]. Gnipahellir is the home of [[Garmr]], the [[hellhound]] who guards the gates of [[Hel (location)|Hel]], the Norse realm of the dead.  Garmr is often featured chained here until the onset of [[Ragnarök]], at which time his bindings break and he runs free. Reference to Gnipahellir appears in [[Vǫluspá]], Prophecy of the [[Völva]],  one of the poems of the [[Poetic Edda]]. <ref>[http://norse-mythology.org/garm/ ''Garm'' (Norse Mythology: Gods and Creatures)]</ref><ref>[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe03.htm ''Völuspá'' (The Poetic Edda, by Henry Adams Bellows, 1936)]</ref>
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 |quote  = ''Now Garm howls loud before Gnipahellir,'' ''The fetters will burst and the wolf run free''
 |source = Völuspá, verse 44  
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==References==
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==Other sources==
*[[Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur|Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist]] (1916)  ''Snorri Sturluson's The Prose Edda'' (The American-Scandinavian Foundation, CreateSpace Independent Publishing. 2011) {{ISBN|978-1461087892}}
*[[Bruce Lincoln|Lincoln, Bruce]] (1991) ''Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology and Practice'' (University of Chicago Press) {{ISBN|0-226-48199-9}}.
*[[Andy Orchard|Orchard, Andy]] (1997) ''Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend'' (Cassell) {{ISBN|0-304-34520-2}}
*[[Rudolf Simek|Simek, Rudolf]] (1996)  ''Dictionary of Northern Mythology'' (translated by Angela Hall. first published by Alfred Kröner Verlag in 1984. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer){{ISBN|0-85991-513-1}}
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