[5] helvega ‘the roads to Hel’: The few other instances of this cpd in poetry are all also in eddic-style verse: see Vsp 47/6, 52/7; Ǫrv 122/8. There the word is used rather more literally, describing men travelling to the world of the dead.
References
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- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 122 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 52)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 928.