Valhalla Trivia
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50 free Valhalla trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Valhalla trivia quiz covers Odin's hall of the slain and its long afterlife in opera, monuments, games and TV. The easy questions are ones anyone who knows a little Norse mythology could answer: who presides over the hall, what the name means, who chooses the fallen, and what battle its warriors are waiting for. The harder end is for Edda readers and mythology buffs: the goddess who claims the other half of the battle-dead, the boar cooked every day and whole again by night, the goat whose udders run with mead, the stag on the roof, the wolf at the west door, the tree Glasir at the gates, the poem in which Eric Bloodaxe is welcomed by Sigmund, the Icelander who wrote the Prose Edda and was murdered in 1241, Wagner's giants who built the gods' home, Ludwig I's Parthenon above the Danube, the New York hamlet where Lou Gehrig is buried, and Ubisoft's Eivor. Fenrir, Víðarr, Huginn and Muninn get questions too. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries for the myths, the sources and the modern namesakes before publishing, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. If you enjoy this one, try our Norse mythology, Vikings and Odin quizzes next.
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Q 01How do the warriors of Valhalla spend each day?
Fighting one another for sport
Fighting one another for sport: each morning they arm, go out to the courtyard and cut each other down, then rise healed and ride back to the hall to eat and drink together.
Q 02What does the Old Norse Valhǫll literally mean?
Hall of the Slain
Hall of the Slain: valr meant those killed in battle. In the poem Grímnismál the gold-bright hall is where Odin picks his share of the fallen every day.
Q 03What are the warriors who dwell in Valhalla called?
Einherjar
Einherjar are the army Odin hoards for Ragnarök: when a visitor remarks how crowded the hall must be, the Prose Edda replies that even this host will seem too few when the end comes.
Q 04Which female spirits decide who falls in battle and bring the dead to Valhalla?
The valkyries
The valkyries: Odin sends them to every battle to settle who wins and who dies, and back in the hall the same figures wait on the men they picked.
Q 05Which goddess claims half of those who die in combat, the other half going to Odin?
Freyja
Freyja seats her half in her own hall at Fólkvangr. In Egil's Saga a grieving daughter who means to starve herself vows to take no supper 'till I sup with Freyja'.
Q 06In Norse myth, Valhalla has 540 of what, so that its army can pour out together at Ragnarök?
Doors
Doors: in the Prose Edda a visitor supposes the entrance must often be badly crowded, and is told he should first ask how many doors the hall has, and how large they are.
Q 07In the Prose Edda, Valhalla stands in which of the Norse worlds?
Asgard
Asgard: the Prose Edda has the gods build Valhalla at the very start, before a giant in disguise offers to wall their citadel for the price of a goddess, the sun and the moon.
Q 08What serve as the rafters of Valhalla in Grímnismál?
Spear-shafts
Spear-shafts hold up the roof so that, as the poem puts it, a dead warrior knows the hall the moment he sees it, down to the coats of mail strewn over its benches.
Q 09Which Led Zeppelin track, written after a 1970 concert in Iceland, has Robert Plant cry that he is coming to Valhalla?
Immigrant Song
Immigrant Song came out of a Reykjavik show that a civil servants' strike nearly cancelled, until the university found the band a hall. Plant called the night phenomenal.
Q 10In the Prose Edda, what animal is Sæhrímnir, cooked daily and whole again by evening?
A boar
A boar, and one is enough: asked how Odin can feed every man killed in battle since the world began, the Prose Edda answers that the hall will never be so full that its meat runs short.
Q 11In the Prose Edda, which plant, growing just west of Valhalla, is used to kill the god Baldr?
Mistletoe
Mistletoe was the one thing Frigg never asked to spare her son, thinking it too young to swear an oath. Loki found out and guided the blind god Höðr's hand.
Q 12In Valhalla, the goat Heiðrún fills a great vat each day with what, straight from her udders?
Mead
Mead: when a visitor asks whether the fallen get only water, the Prose Edda scoffs that Odin would hardly invite kings and earls and then serve them that.
Q 13What is unusual about Sleipnir, the horse Odin rides?
He has eight legs
He has eight legs, and Loki is his mother: the trickster turned into a mare to lure away a giant builder's stallion and later gave birth to the grey foal.
Q 21In Ynglinga saga, Odin's law promises the dead will arrive in Valhalla with whatever riches were what?
Burned on their pyre
Burned on their pyre: the same law lets a man keep whatever he had buried himself, and orders a mound raised for great men and a standing stone for brave warriors.
Q 22Whose horn blast will rouse the gods and send Valhalla's army to arm when Ragnarök begins?
Heimdall
Heimdall, the gods' watchman, is said to hear grass grow and to need less sleep than a bird. Once the alarm is given he meets Loki in the battle, and the two kill each other.
Q 23Which survival game carries fallen Vikings to a 'tenth world' to prove themselves worthy of Valhalla?
Valheim
Q 14In Valhalla, who gets all the meat that is set before Odin at the feast?
His two wolves
His two wolves, Geri and Freki, eat it all: Odin needs no food, because wine is both meat and drink to him.
Q 15What are those killed in battle described as being to Odin in the Prose Edda?
His adopted sons
His adopted sons: the Prose Edda gives that as the reason Odin is also called Valfather, and says it is for them that he keeps the hall ready.
Q 16In the Prose Edda, Glasir grows outside Valhalla with leaves made of what?
Red gold
Red gold: the Prose Edda calls Glasir the fairest tree among gods and men, and tells of it to explain why poets could call gold 'the leaves of Glasir'.
Q 17Which god was called when the giant Hrungnir got drunk in Valhalla and threatened to carry it away?
Thor
Thor came at once, but the giant pleaded a guest's protection inside the hall, so the two agreed to meet in a formal duel, which Hrungnir did not survive.
Q 18In the Prose Edda, where do those who die of sickness or old age go, rather than Valhalla?
Hel
Hel is both the place and its ruler: the Prose Edda makes her Loki's daughter, thrown down into the cold below by Odin and given charge of everyone sent to her.
Q 19In an Eddic poem, the hero Helgi reaches Valhalla and sets his old enemy Hunding to which humbling task?
Washing every warrior's feet
Washing every warrior's feet was only the start: Hunding must also light the fire, tie up the dogs and feed the pigs before he may sleep. Odin had invited Helgi to rule beside him.
Q 20A 10th-century poem has Odin rouse Valhalla to welcome which Viking king of Northumbria?
Eric Bloodaxe
Eric Bloodaxe: his widow Gunnhild is said to have ordered the poem, in which Odin has the benches strewn and the cups scoured, sure that a great king is on his way.
Valheim drops the player there with nothing: to win the Allfather's favour they must hunt down the monsters he banished to that world long ago.
Q 24Who wrote the Prose Edda, a key source for Valhalla?
Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson wrote it as a textbook: it tells young skalds to master the book if they want to learn the language of poetry and understand what the old verses darkly say.
Q 25Which Danish actor plays the enslaved warrior One-Eye in Nicolas Winding Refn's 2009 film Valhalla Rising?
Mads Mikkelsen
Mads Mikkelsen plays him without a word of dialogue: One-Eye breaks free and sails with Crusaders bound for the Holy Land, who get lost in fog and come ashore somewhere else entirely.
Q 26In Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase novels, Valhalla takes the form of what in modern Boston?
A hotel
A hotel: the newly dead check in at Hotel Valhalla, where a manager named Helgi has run the desk for more than a thousand years, and Magnus arrives after dying in a fight on a Boston bridge.
Q 27At Ragnarök, which wolf swallows Odin whole?
Fenrir
Fenrir had been bound by the gods with a magic ribbon, and bit off the hand Týr laid in his mouth as a pledge that it was no trick. At Ragnarök the fetter finally snaps.
Q 28In the Prose Edda, which 'silent god' avenges Odin by tearing the wolf's jaws apart?
Víðarr
Víðarr pins the wolf's lower jaw with a shoe made from every scrap of leather ever trimmed off a shoe, then wrenches the jaws apart. He is one of the few gods who live on afterwards.
Q 29Ask and Embla were the first humans in Norse myth, but which pair survive Ragnarök to repopulate the world?
Líf and Lífþrasir
Líf and Lífþrasir hide in a wood while fire sweeps the world, living on nothing but morning dew until the earth rises green again.
Q 30What are Odin's two ravens called?
Huginn and Muninn
Huginn and Muninn leave at dawn, fly over the whole world and are back by breakfast to tell Odin what they saw. In the old poem he frets every day that they may not return.