Hel/Hela seems to be depicted in the "Old English Gospel of Nicodemus," a Christian text from the eleventh century. In the text, a feminine personification of Hell (called "Seo hell" in the text) engages in a flyting (An Anglo-Saxon practice, where two rivals exchange insults and mock each other, often in verse) with Satan. Seo hell commands Satan to leave her realm. The female figure is thought to be the old Germanic goddess, apparently still familiar to the Christianized Anglo-Saxons of the eleventh century.

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