The radiant hall that survives Ragnarök and shelters the righteous.
Gimlé is described in Völuspá as a hall roofed with gold and brighter than the sun, situated in the radiance of the southern sky. It is the place where the righteous and virtuous will dwell after the world's destruction and cosmic renewal.
Snorri interprets Gimlé as the place beyond Ásgarðr, arched over with divine fire and protected from Ragnarök. In function it resembles a Norse paradise and may have been influenced by Christian eschatology at the time of writing.
Attestations
- Völuspá 64
- Depicts Gimlé as the bright hall in the renewed world.