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Muspellheim

Historical Urbs ₁ Featured November 8 , 2007

Muspellheim is the Land of Fire. It is a realm of unspeakable heat, quenchless fires, and overhung with clouds of black ashes and fiery sparks. Fire in general symbolizes fear and renewal and as the land of fire, Muspellheim, is one of the nine worlds within the Teutonic universal world tree.

In the midst of its blinding heat and light sits Surtur, guarding the kingdom of fire with his flaming sword and ruling his many sons, the destroyers of worlds, gods and men.

He has been described thus:

"Surtur with his fiery sword,
A creature of eternal flame,
Muspellhem is his ward,
In end of time, the nine worlds bane."
(Robert Blumetti)

Surt, or Surtur (derived from svartr, "black") resides in Muspellheim, the hot and bright region south of Midgard, and he is its guardian. On the evening of Destiny (Ragnarök), when the forces of evil from the world of giants (Iotunheimar) and the hell of Hel go to battle, Surt must bring the sons of Muspell to conquer the realm of the gods. This is the great conflagaration at the end of time that will burn up all the worlds.

Emerging from the heavens torn apart by the cataclysms that will shake the universe, he is preceded and followed by a great fire. Surt is armed with a mighty sword which it is said, "shines brightly burning more intensely than the sun."