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Valhalla

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Valhalla or Walhalla (both: vălhäl`ə, –hăl`ə), in Norse mythology, Odin's hall for slain heroes. This martial paradise was one of the most beautiful halls of Asgard Asgard (ăs`gärd), in Norse mythology, home of the gods, also known as Aesir.
..... Click the link for more information. . The dead warriors, brought to Valhalla by the Valkyries, fought during the day and feasted at night.

Valhalla

In Germanic religion, the hall of slain warriors who live blissfully under the leadership of Odin. Valhalla is depicted as a splendid palace, roofed with shields, where the warriors feast on the flesh of a boar slaughtered daily and made whole again each evening. They drink liquor that flows from the udders of a goat, and their sport is to fight one another every day, with the slain being revived in the evening. Thus they will live until the Ragnarok, when they will leave Valhalla to fight at the side of Odin against the Giants. See also Asgard, Freyja, Valkyrie.

Valhalla
celestial banquet hall for departed war heroes. [Norse Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 1122]
See : Heaven
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The maidens of Valhalla look forth, The race of Hengist will send them guests.
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In the lower House were certain bedaubed walls, in the basest style of imitation, which made him feel faintly sick, not to speak of a lobby adorned with artless prints and photographs of eminent defunct Congressmen that was all too serious for a joke and too comic for a Valhalla.
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