Muþspell
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Muþspell is a reconstructed Proto-Germanic form of the root behind the Norse accounts of Muspelheim
and the German Muspilli
. Both refer to cataclysmic descriptions of the end of the world.
Muspelheim
In Norse mythology, Muspelheim , also called Múspell, is a realm of fire. This realm is one of the Nine Worlds and it is home to the fire jötunn or the Sons of Muspell, and Surtr, their ruler. It is fire; and the land to the North, Niflheim, is ice...
and the German Muspilli
Muspilli
Muspilli is one of but two surviving pieces of Old High German epic poetry , dating to around 870. One large fragment of the text has survived in the margins and empty pages of a codex marked as the possession of Louis the German and now in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek . The beginning and end of...
. Both refer to cataclysmic descriptions of the end of the world.