Valhalla: How Viking Belief in a Glorious Afterlife Empowered Warriors

Old Norse literature about Vikings is filled with famous last clashes, daring last words, songs of death and defiance. When men died in battle, it was believed that the god of war Odin gathered slain warriors chosen from his home in Asgard – the abode of the gods in Norse mythology. Odin’s mythical hall, called Valhalla, was a warrior’s paradise built of spear rods and covered with shields.

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