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Himinbjörg

Heimdall's hall at the edge of heaven, where Bifröst meets the sky; from here the watchman of the gods guards the bridge.

Himinbjörg is Heimdall's home, eighth in the list of divine dwellings in Grímnismál, where "the warder of heaven" drinks good mead in his well-built house Grímnismál 13. Snorri puts it exactly where a sentry should be: "at heaven's end by the bridge-head, in the place where Bifröst joins heaven" Gylfaginning 17, so that Heimdall can guard Bifröst against the giants Gylfaginning 27.

The two versions of the stanza differ. Grímnismál, in the Codex Regius as Bellows translates it, says Heimdall "O'er men holds sway" there Grímnismál 13; the version Snorri quotes says only that he "Aye has his housing" there Gylfaginning 27. The sources describe nothing else about the hall.

In the sources

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Himinbjorg is the eighth, and Heimdall there O'er men holds sway, it is said; In his well-built house does the warder of heaven The good mead gladly drink.
Grímnismál 13 Himinbjörg in Odin's list of divine dwellings.
There is also the abode called Himinbjörg; it stands at heaven's end by the bridge-head, in the place where Bifröst joins heaven.
Gylfaginning 17 Snorri places it at the end of the rainbow bridge.

Related

Heimdall Heimdallr The watchman of the gods, born of nine mothers, who guards Bifröst from his hall Himinbjörg and will blow the Gjallarhorn when Ragnarök begins. Bifröst The bridge between earth and heaven, which Snorri identifies with the rainbow; the gods ride over it each day, Heimdallr guards it, and it breaks at Ragnarök. Gjallarhorn Heimdall's horn, whose blast is heard in all worlds. He will sound it to wake the gods when Ragnarök begins; Snorri also has Mímir drink from it at his well. Asgard Ásgarðr The stronghold of the Æsir, walled against the giants, full of halls such as Valhall and Bilskirnir; Snorri also identifies it, confusingly, with Troy.