Thread:Blaublau94/@comment-31147694-20170730063334/@comment-1509585-20170730064809

I agree, Hel in the Norse Mythology looks much more like the scene with Hela and the Valkyrior than the one with Thor in chains. But the information that this fire realm is indeed Hel, came from Kevin Feige himself in the Thor: The Dark World commentary track. We still don't know if these two are:
 * The same place in two different points in time
 * Hell and Muspelheim, separately

I think we should wait for more concrete information from official sources or even wait for the movie before we retcon that, since there are things that are a certain way in the comics and look different in the MCU (the Infinity Gems' colors for example).