Comus presided over entertainments and the pleasures of the table. […] Here resided Hela, the dreadful Goddess of death, daughter of the evil genius Loke, and the giantess Angherbode, or messenger of ill she was described as occupying an immense palace; where her hall was Sorrow; her table, Famine; her knife, Hunger; her Servants, Slowness and Delay; her gate, Precipice; her vestibule, Languor; her bed, Malady and Leanness; her tent, Malediction. […] In an apartment of one of them was placed a magnificent bed, and a golden table near it; but without any image.