Inferno (Dante) with his sons and grandsons in the Torre dei Gualandi. In March 1289, the Archbishop condemned the prisoners to death by starvation in the tower. Canto XXXIV In the very centre of Hell, condemned for committing the ultimate sin (personal treachery against God), is the Devil, referred to by Virgil as Dis (the Roman god of the underworld; the name "Dis" was often used for Pluto in antiquity, such as in Virgil's "Aeneid"). The arch-traitor, Lucifer was once held by God to be fairest of the angels before his pride led him to rebel against God, resulting in his expulsion
Sinmara Orcus, a god of the underworld in Roman mythology, and that Hel is blue or half blue and half light, like the Roman goddess Proserpina, whom Saxo equates to Hel in his "Gesta Danorum". Falk further notes that Sinmara is referred to as "aurglasis Eirr", which he translates as "the goddess of the gold ring", and compares Hel's being called "Gjallar sunnu gátt" "wearer of the necklace" in stanza 9 of the poem "Forspjallsljóð". Björn Olsen associates the kenning with "veðurglasir", a name of Yggdrasill in stanza 24 of the same poem, and translates "aurglasir" as a name for the