Norse mythology also includes the northern parts of Germany, Orkney Islands, Greenland, Faeroe Islands, Parts of England, Parts of Scotland, Parts of Ireland, Parts of Wales, Isle Of Man and so on, Basicly the areas the Vikings settled but which now are parts of other countries than Norway and Denmark (the norse countries that settled to the west,. the swedes went east)
I know two african afterlife myths which work on a similair premise of there being a specific PLACE for spirits. The first 😎 covers evil 😈 spirits and the second, good spirits. Whilst the first is cool, the latter was a little too sugary for my taste, but in brief, it covers a man visiting his parents in the underworld, where they give him a container for tobacco seeds. I hadn't known that there was tobacco in pre-colonial africa 😮 The africans thought that it must have been a gift from their ancestors, who are the source of all life.
The base for the evil spirits by contrast, is seen as a threatening place, for the evil spirits crave human meat and will go to considerable lengths to procure it 😄 The myth tells of how they capture a young couple by sending a talking skull to ambush them, but the victims are subsequently rescued by a spider, "...evil spirits are like flies...I can easily catch and eat hundreds in a day..." 😄