Along the banks of the venomous river Gjoll, the lost souls buried up to their necks are wailing their hymns of sorrow as the bloody ice-waves come crashing in.
The river Gjoll in Niffleheim marks the boundary between the land of the living and the shores of Nastrond in Hel, the realm of the dead. It is spanned by a bridge called Gjallerbru, which is guarded by Modgud.[1]