Baldr and Hod Arrive from Hel

Then spoke Gangleri: ‘What will happen then after heaven and
earth and all the world is burned and all the gods and all Einheriar
and all mankind are dead? You said previously that everyone
shall live in some world or other for ever and ever.’

Then said Third: ‘There will then be many mansions that are
good, and many that are bad. The best place to be in heaven then
will be Gimle, and there will be plenty of good drink for those that
take pleasure in it in the hall called Brimir. That is also in heaven.
That is also a good hall which is situated on Nidafioll, built of red
gold. It is called Sindri. In these halls shall dwell good and virtuous
people. On Nastrands is a large and unpleasant hall, and its doors
face north. It is also woven out of snakes’ bodies like a wattled
house, and the snakes’ heads all face inside the house and spit
poison so that rivers of poison flow along the hall, and wading
those rivers are oathbreakers and murderers, as it says here:

I know a hall that stands far from the sun on Nastrand.
North face the doors. Poison drops flow in through the
smoke-hole. This hall is woven from snakes’ backs. There
shall wade heavy streams men who are perjured and
murderers.

But it is worst in Hvergelmir:

There Nidhogg torments the bodies of the dead.’

Then spoke Gangleri: ‘Will there be any gods alive then? And
will there be any kind of earth or sky?’

High said: ‘The earth will shoot up out of the sea and will then
be green and fair. Crops will grow unsown. Vidar and Vali will be
alive, the sea and Surt’s fire not having harmed them, and they will
dwell on Idavoll, where Asgard had been previously. And then
Thor’s sons Modi and Magni will arrive, bringing Miollnir. After
that Baldr and Hod will arrive from Hel. Then they will all sit
down together and talk and discuss their mysteries and speak of
the things that had happened in former times, of the Midgard
serpent and Fenriswolf. Then they will find in the grass the golden
playing pieces that had belonged to the Æsir. Thus it is said:

Vidar and Vali will dwell in the gods’ holy places when
Surt’s flame goes dark. Modi and Magni shall have Miollnir
when Vingnir fights no more.


- Prose Edda, Gylfaginning