 "Queen Hel" is not mentioned elsewhere in the saga.Michael Bell says that while Hel "might at first appear to be identical with the well-known pagan goddess of the Norse underworld" as described in chapter 34 of "Gylfaginning", "in the combined light of the Old English and Old Norse versions of "Nicodemus" she casts quite a different a shadow," and that in "Bartholomeus saga postola" "she is clearly the queen of the Christian, not pagan, underworld.