The Prose Edda on Muspelheim

The Younger Edda: > Chapter Iv. > The Creation Of The World.

• attestation: Muspelheim is a world to the south that is light, hot, and dazzling, uninhabitable by non-natives

  "a world to the south which hight Muspelheim. It is light and hot, and so bright and dazzling that no stranger, who is not a native there, can stand it"

• attestation: Sparks from Muspelheim were placed in heaven to light up heaven and earth

  "they took glowing sparks, that were loose and had been cast out from Muspelheim, and placed them in the midst of the boundless heaven"

The Younger Edda: > Chapter V. > The Creation--(Continued.)

• attestation: No structure in the world can withstand the sons of Muspel's assault

  "there is no thing in the world that is able to stand when the sons of Muspel come to the fight"