The Poetic Edda on Valaskjolf
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- attestation: Valaskjolf is characterized by age in the verse.
"6. A third home is there, | with silver thatched By the hands of the gracious gods: Valaskjolf is it, | in days of old Set by a god for himself."
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- attestation: Valaskjolf ('the Shelf of the Slain') is Othin's home containing his watch-tower Hlithskjolf.
"Valaskjolf ("the Shelf of the Slain"): Othin's home, in which is his watch-tower, Hlithskjolf."