Valhalla. The hall of warriors who go to Odin. They die and are resurrected daily

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Valhalla. The hall of warriors who go to Odin. They die and are resurrected daily.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · Nature of the upper world. · view the constellation · filed as A661.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Irish mythCross.
general **Neckel Walhall (Dortmund, 1913)
general M. Olsen Acta Philol. Scand. VI 151f.
general MacCulloch Eddic 312

Within the index

Filed under Heaven. A blissful upper world.

7 finer motifs beneath it

Valhalla has five hundred and forty doors Goat (Heidrún) in Valhalla gives mead Hog (Soehrímnir) in Valhalla gives meat Deer (Eikthyrnir) in Valhalla fills the fountain Hvergelmir Cock in Valhalla awakens the gods. Icel: Boberg Inhabitants of heaven divided into companies Saint sees vision of three cities in heaven: a city of gold, a city of silver, a city of glass

Filed beside it

Gate of heaven Music in heaven Chairs in heaven Cleansing fountain in heaven Bridge of heaven Windows in heaven: sixty-six (seventy-two) windows in the firmament Self-illuminating precious stones in heaven Sweet odor in heaven Heaven surrounded by seven walls Land of the saints surrounded by fiery circle The eight paradises Five trees of paradise Girls dancing in heaven

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