E32:Rán’s Net, Hel’s Hall: The Missing Piece of the Norse Afterlife

In this episode of I Am Heathen and So Can You, we dive into one of the stranger questions in Norse mythology: what happens to the drowned? Odin and Freyja claim the war dead, Hel receives the dead in Helheim, but Rán only has her net. So where do those taken by the sea actually go?Using saga clues, Norse cosmology, death deity theology, and modern Heathen UPG, this episode explores whether Rán may be her own goddess of the drowned, an aspect of Hel, or part of a larger divine system of death, gathering, and reciprocity.This is not dogma. It is an invitation to wrestle with the sources.