#valhalla

[the-walrus-squad]

Veikko Tactics

[when-november-ends]

hot take, but i think a lot of norse pagans need to be okay with not going to Valhalla.

Valhalla is not the equivalent of the christian Heaven, and Helheim is not Hel.

honestly, i don't know why you would even want to end up in Valhalla if you're not a seasoned fighter/warrior, because like... have you read the descriptions of that place? you fight and die and fight and die all over again, basically forever.

personally, i would much rather be in Helheim with my loved ones and be cared for and welcomed and loved and spend my days in comfort.

[rain--goblin]

I have a question

There's no right answers because it's honestly more just theory and interpretation, but I think about it sometimes and I want other perspectives

So, when you research Norse paganism and it's afterlife, you get three options (not getting into the idea of multiple soul parts and how they can go to other halls and the main 3 aren't the ONLY options, that's another discussion)

1. Valhalla

2. Fólkvangr

3. Helheim

Everyone knows the rules, you die on a battlefield as a warrior, you get to go with Odin or Freyja to Valhalla or Fólkvangr but if you die of sickness or old age, like most common folk, you get to go to Helheim

Where does that leave people who aren't really soldiers, but they do die fighting? And by that I mean people who die in riots or are killed while protesting? They didn't die of sickness or old age, they died fighting, just not on a battlefield in the traditional sense. What about people who died in like, one on one fights of some sort? It's no battlefield, but again, they went down swinging or weilding some sort of weapon.

What's in the Norse afterlife rule book for these people?

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Glad my trio is still the most reprehensibly violent YA series on Goodreads after all these years.

[automaniac-x]

[assassin1513]

🖤Valhalla calling me🖤

[livingforstars]

Callisto Enhanced - May 12th, 1998.

"Callisto is half rock and half ice. This moon of Jupiter is approximately the size of the planet Mercury, making it the third largest moon in the Solar System, after Ganymede and Titan. Callisto's icy surface is billions of years old, lacks any sign of volcanic activity, and is densely covered with rifts and craters. These features are particularly apparent in this contrast-enhanced image taken by the Galileo spacecraft. Visible near the image center is Valhalla, one of the largest impact craters in the Solar System, measuring about 4,000 kilometers across. The rings and size of Valhalla make its appearance similar to the Caloris Impact Basin on Mercury."