The village of Hell has become a minor tourist attraction because of its name, as visitors often have their photograph taken in front of the station sign. A smaller building on the railway station has been given the sign gods-expedition, which is the archaic spelling of the word for "goods handling" (godsekspedisjon would be the spelling in the contemporary Norwegian language).
The name Hell stems from the Old Norse word hellir, which means "overhang" or "cliff cave". It has a more common homonym in modern Norwegian that means "luck". The Old Norse word Hel is the same as today's English Hell, and as a proper noun, Hel was the ruler of Hel. In modern Norwegian, the word for hell is helvete.
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