The Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2) / The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations

by Paul B. Du Chaillu

Of the runes[^[33]] of Jötnar

And those of all the gods

I can tell thee true,

For I have been

In every world;

I have gone to nine

Worlds beneath Nifl-hel;

There die the men from Hel.

The sides of the rim of heaven communicate with each other by a bridge called Bifröst, or the bridge of the Asar, on which Heimdall, the watchman of the gods, stood.

“Heimdall is the watchman of the gods standing on Bifröst Bridge (the rainbow)” (Later Edda, 27).