Kerlaugar

"Kettle-baths." One of the rivers Thor has to wade through on his way to the judgment-throne, according to Grímnismál. The names of the other two rivers are Körmt and Örmt.

Körmt and Örmt,

and the Kerlaugs twain:

these Thor must wade each day,

when he to council goes

at Yggdrasil's ash;

for the As-bridge

is all on fire,

the holy waters boil.

The other Æsir ride their horses over Bifröst to the judgment.

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