VALHALLA


Meaning of VALHALLA in English

n.

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 .

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