The Old English homily Vercelli XIX, while mostly based on a homily that arrived in Latin from outside England, introduces some material that is otherwise unparalleled in early medieval texts. Notably, as the homily sums up the fall of Lucifer from heaven, it states that “[Lucifer] hine sylfne his scyppende gelicne don wolde 7 him þrymsetle on norðdæle heofona rices getimbrian wolde, of ðam he ricene afeoll” (lines 17-19). So, “[Lucifer] desired himself to behave like his creator, and desired to build up a throne in the north region of the kingdom of heaven, from which he quickly fell.”

So, the ric heofona, or kingdom of heaven, has a northern region, or norðdæl. And I am in the east valley of the shadow of death.