Hvergelmir
Hvergelmir ( Old Norse Hvergelmir ), also Hvergelmer, in Norse mythology is the source that feeds all the world's rivers with water. It lies under the world tree Yggdrasil, which embodies the creation in its entirety, and is home to many snakes and snake-like dragon Nidhoggr.
In the Poetic Edda Hvergelmir only mentioned in the song Grímnismál. After that gnaws the deer Eikthyrnir on the branches of the tree Lärad while falling from its antlers drop in the source, all rivers in the world get their water from the of which are listed (depending on how you count differently ) in a subsequent flow catalog about forty.
In the mythological concept of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the source is located in the center of Niflheim. After his presentation, the source dined already in prehistoric times, ie before the gods created the world, the Élivágar which he identified with eleven named rivers. Your water flowed into the ditch Ginnungagap, where it hit as ice and frost on the glowing sparks and the heat of the fire world Muspellsheim, from which was formed the first life. Ever since the world tree Yggdrasil grown, stands one of its three roots over Niflheim, and thus also about Hvergelmir time. In the source of Dragon Nidhoggr and countless snakes, including Goin and Moin live. In the Ragnarök this dragon tormenting the bodies of the deceased in the source.
But how in the song Grímnismál At the same time it is said that the tree fall Lärad drops from antlers of the stag Eikthyrnir in the source Hvergelmir. All the rivers, of which twenty-five are named, their water from her.