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Muspel(l) or Muspel(l)heim

is, in Norse mythology, the world of light and heat, situated in the south part of the universe; Niflheim, the habitation of mist and cold, being situated in the north. The inhabitants of this world are called "the sons of Muspell," among whom Sturt or Surtur is chief, and the ruler of Muspellheim, who sits on its borders bearing a flaming falchion, and at the end of the world he shall issue forth to combat, and shall vanquish all the gods, and consume the universe with fire.