1676 E. Stillingfleet Def. Disc. Concerning Idolatry I. 158 Those who were good should be with him in a place called Gimle or Wingulf, but those that were bad to Hela.

1742 T. Broughton Hist. Dict. All Relig. I. 600 All, who did not die in war..were immediately conveyed to the infernal goddess Hela,..where they pined away with hunger, want, and nastiness.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 165 The Tree Igdrasil, that has its roots down in the Kingdoms of Hela and Death, and whose boughs overspread the highest Heaven!

1913 D. Mackenzie Indian Myth & Legend iii. 59 Indra's Assembly House is slightly reminiscent of the Teutonic Valhal, but it is really more like the gardens of the underworld Hela.

1988 P. Scupham Air Show 12 I will lie on the Fields of the Dead, Hela my bride; Half-corpse, half-woman.

1953 W. F. Scherer et al. in Jrnl. Exper. Med. XCVII. 695 This cellular strain, designated as strain HeLa by one of the authors (G. G[ey]) when he obtained it from an epidermoid carcinoma of the cervix has been maintained in continuous serial culture passage in vitro from February 8, 1951, until the present.

1953 W. F. Scherer et al. in Jrnl. Exper. Med. XCVII. 705 Cultures of strain HeLa cells are capable of producing large quantities of poliomyelitis virus.

1959 Lab. Investig. 8 278 Since the human cancer cell strain HeLa is in such wide use as an in vitro system for the study of cell processes, it appeared to be of value to study..aspects of DNA physiology in these cultures.

1959 Lab. Investig. 8 283 The variability in DNA synthesis in HeLa is small in this medium.

1965 C. H. Andrewes Common Cold viii. 65 A few lines of cells..have been growing happily for years and these have been sent all round the world, so that the best-known lines, such as HeLa cells from a human cancer..are used in hundreds of laboratories.