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Valhalla|vælˈhæla|
Also Wal-.
[a. mod.L. Valhalla, ad. ON. Valhall-, Valhǫll, f. val-r (= OE. wæl) those slain in battle + hǫll hall. Cf. G. Walhalla, F. Wal-, Valhalla.]
In Old Northern mythology, the hall assigned to those who have died in battle, in which they feast with Odin.
α1768Gray Fatal Sisters 79 note, The Valkyriur..conducted them to Valhalla, the hall of Odin, or paradise of the Brave. 1780Encycl. Brit. (ed. 2) V. 3288/1 That their great Odinus excluded all those from his valhalla, or paradise, who [etc.]. 1801M. G. Lewis Tales of Wonder, Hacho's Death Song xvii, Soon as he gains Valhalla's gate, Eight heroes there to greet him wait. 1855Arnold Balder Dead i. 19 Enough of tears, ye Gods, enough of wail! Not to lament in was Valhalla made.
β1851Expositor 11 Jan. 171/2 A long and happy sojourn in the Walhalla.
b. transf. and fig. A place or sphere assigned to persons, etc., worthy of special honour.
c1845Mrs. Browning Fourfold Aspect ii, That this Death, then, must be found A Valhalla for the crowned. 1868Milman St. Paul's 480 That St. Paul's might fitly become a Valhalla for English worthies. 1880Ld. Acton Lett. M. Gladstone (1904) 56 Neither Pitt nor Peel lives in my Walhalla. |