![]() ![]() ![]() It is unclear when Valholl changed to the familiar Valhalla, a hall of heroes and kings served by Valkyries, but this image was established by the 10th century in the poem Grímnismál. In this earlier vision, the Valkyries were understood as death demons who carried the souls of fallen warriors to a kind of eternal battlefield strewn with stones or one below a range of mountains. The name Valhalla comes from the Norse Valholl, with holl originally referring to a rock, rocks, or mountains, not a hall, and understood as Rock of the Slain. The concept of Odin’s Hall seems to have developed from an earlier vision of a warrior’s afterlife as a battlefield. Valhalla (“Hall of the Slain”) is the afterlife realm in Norse mythology for fallen heroes selected by Odin’s Valkyrie to become members of the army that will fight against the forces of chaos at Ragnarök. There were five realms the souls of the dead traveled to after life. The image was created in 1896 and was a part of the scenic design of Twilight of the Gods from The Ring of the Nibelungs that was an opera by Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Here souls were looked after by Valkyries who served them mead. Unlike Hel that was a rather gloomy and dark place, Valhalla was a blissful after-life location. Artist imagination of Valhalla, Odin’s hall of fallen warriors ( Einherjar). ![]()
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