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Valhalla (1905) by Emil Doepler. In Norse mythology, the einherjar (singular einheri; literally "army of one", "those who fight alone") [1] [2] are those who have died in battle and are brought to Valhalla by valkyries.
Valinor (Quenya: Land of the Valar) or the Blessed Realm is a fictional location in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the home of the immortal Valar on the continent of Aman, far to the west of Middle-earth; he used the name Aman mainly to mean Valinor.
Odin, in his guise as a wanderer, as imagined by Georg von Rosen (1886). Odin (/ ˈ oʊ d ɪ n /; [1] from Old Norse: Óðinn) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and ...
Valhalla is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, in the Prose Edda (written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson), in Heimskringla (also written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson), and in stanzas of an anonymous 10th-century poem commemorating the death of Eric Bloodaxe known as Eiríksmál as compiled in Fagrskinna.
She weaves the story of the world in her tapestries, which are draped all over the halls of Mandos. Yavanna Queen of the Earth Giver of Fruits: Aulë: She is responsible for both kelvar (animals) and olvar (plants). She requested the creation of the Ents, concerned for the safety of the trees once her husband created the Dwarves. The Two Lamps ...
The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar (Japanese: 百錬の覇王と聖約の 戦乙女 （ ヴァルキュリア ）, Hepburn: Hyakuren no Haō to Seiyaku no Varukyuria, literally "Well-tempered high king and valkyrie of covenant") is a Japanese light novel series written by Seiichi Takayama and illustrated by Yukisan.
Deidre Hall is remembering longtime “Days of Our Lives” co-star Drake Hogestyn following the news of his death at age 70.. Hall and Hogestyn shared the screen together on the soap opera for ...
In Norse mythology, Valaskjálf ("the Shelf of the Slain" [1]) is one of Odin's Halls, a great dwelling built and roofed with pure silver. In this room is a high seat, Hliðskjálf , where Odin can watch over the entire universe.