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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:Second, "Go to Hel" is a thing people said. A curse, meaning "drop dead." After all, if a fight started and the cursed one died, they would get to go to Valhalla, which was too good a fate, obviously. There is an old, related Faroese curse, which means pretty much the same: "Far nišur og noršur" - "Go down and north". Since Helheim(u)r was supposed to be cold, dark and terrible place, going north (cold) and down (dark) was a way to wish someone dead without drawing untoward attention to oneself. Best not to invoke the dark powers directly, lest they look upon you, and all that.
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