Q 01/05

How do the warriors of Valhalla spend each day?

A) Forging weapons for the gods

B) Hunting giants in the mountains

C) Fighting one another for sport

D) Guarding the rainbow bridge

Answer · why

C) 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 ...

Q 02/05

What does the Old Norse Valhǫll literally mean?

A) Hall of Heroes

B) Hall of the Slain

C) Hall of the Gods

D) Golden Hall

Answer · why

B) 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 da...

Q 03/05

What are the warriors who dwell in Valhalla called?

A) Jarls

B) Húskarlar

C) Skalds

D) Einherjar

Answer · why

D) 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 ...

Q 04/05

Which female spirits decide who falls in battle and bring the dead to Valhalla?

A) The Norns

B) The valkyries

C) The dísir

D) The shield-maidens

Answer · why

B) 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 05/05

Which goddess claims half of those who die in combat, the other half going to Odin?

A) Iðunn

B) Freyja

C) Hel

D) Frigg

Answer · why

B) 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 ...