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valhalla
/vælˈhælə/
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What does valhalla mean?
noun
- An abode of the gods or afterlife in general.
proper noun
- The home of half of all warriors who died gloriously in battle as well as many of the Æsir.
- A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York, United States.
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IPA pronunciation
/vælˈhælə/
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But this morning he swore, by Odin and Thor And the Canine Valhalla--he'd stand it no more!
The maidens of Valhalla look forth, The race of Hengist will send them guests.
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At first it looked like a vast blue fort or Valhalla; but when they began to tuck the coarse meadow hay into the crevices, and this became covered with rime and icicles, it looked like a venerable moss-grown and hoary ruin, built of azure-tinted marble, the abode of Winter, that old man we see in the almanac,—his shanty, as if he had a design to estivate with us.
The early Germans attempted to relieve sprains by reciting confidently how Baldur's horse had been cured by Woden after all the other mighty inhabitants of Valhalla had given up the task, and even earlier tribes of Europe and Asia had used for illness such a formula as: "The great mill stone that is India's is the bruiser of every worm. With that I mash together the worms as grain with a mill stone."