The Poetic Edda on Valhal
The > Volume I > Notes
- attestation: The heroes brought to Valhall by the Valkyries fight each day and are healed of their wounds each evening to feast together.
"The heroes: those brought to Valhall by the Valkyries. After the day's fighting they are healed of their wounds and all feast together."
The > Volume I > Introductory Note
- attestation: The stanza describes warfare or combat involving Valhall.
"23. Five hundred doors | and forty there are, I ween, in Valhall's walls; Eight hundred fighters | through one door fare When to war with the wolf they go."
The > part in a few of the Eddic poems. > Notes
- attestation: The word Valhall, meaning Odin's hall of slain warriors, is used for the war-hall
"War-hall: the word used is "Valhall," the name of Othin's hall of slain warriors."
The > part in a few of the Eddic poems. > Pronouncing Index
- attestation: Valhall is Odin's hall
"Val′-hall, Othin's hall"