VALHALLA

A lifetime of waiting for this moment.It seemed so far away and you are there.Your breathing is short,blood and sweat mingling on your skin,your eyes are burning and you are so tired.But the pride of getting there,of being chosen from so many....makes you forget the pain.You hear laughter on the other side of the door and warriors telling deeds,you hear mugs full of beer and mead clinking together in a toast,and above them all you hear his voice,the Valfather.Valhöll welcomes you, einheri.Valhöll is the reward for Odin's warriors.Valhöll in Old Norse means hall of the slain,although some say it means shield hall.Valhöll is in Asgard,(although some sources say it's underground),it's a huge hall where only the fallen warriors that Odin chooses get to. Amazing valkyries roam the battlefield to collect Odin's chosen warriors and take them to Valhöll,the beams are made of spears,the roof of shields and light streams from the swords.Wolves guard the gate and eagles fly above the hall.Valhöll is so large that it has many rooms and 540 gates,and those gates are so large that 800 warriors can pass through each of them,and so it will be on the day of Ragnarök.In Valhöll is Læraðr, the tree whose leaves feed the goat Heiðrún,whose udders give not milk but mead for the warriors to quench their thirst,and from the tree also feeds Eikþyrnir (Old Norse for oak antlers), the deer that feeds all the rivers with the water that flows from its antlers.There also lives the boar Sæhrímnir, who feeds the einherjar with his flesh and comes to life again and again. And there you'll spend your days warrior, fighting, laughing, eating and drinking mead served by the valkyries.And every night your wounds will heal and you'll fight again the next day under the gaze of the Valfather, until the day the sound of the horn opens the gates of Valhöll, and through every gate you will go out 800 warriors to fight in Ragnarök to defend Herfödr.... Skål!!!! *Art by bishesh-aale

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