If anything, it is the other way around. Those who were not slain in battle went to Hel to rest- that much is true. However, the soldiers were split evenly. This is the accepted belief.
We're a far-stretch from the original worshipers and they left us only so much evidence of their faith, so it's hard to tell what Freya's criteria may be a heart of valor vs many men slain in combat for example , but I hope that this helps answer the question.
Valhalla: home of the heros who did not yield, the valiant dead, Eitenjar the first into the fight when ragnarok begins.
Folkvangr is where the other "half" goes. This might just be a way of saying there are two types of people in battle. Odin claims the ones who simply love battle for the sake of battle. Where Freyja takes the ones who are done fighting. This is shown in the fact that Freyja and those who go to Folkvangr do not participate in ragnarok but instead go to Alfheim.
The two are pretty much the same. Valhalla mean "Hall of the slain". Usually only someone of importance would be slain, a regular man would be killed. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
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Built of weapons and armor, Valhalla was the promised land of a Viking warrior. Eight hundred einherjar would exit out of each, prepared to defend Asgard against the encroaching forces of chaos.
Odin knows that Ragnarok is going to happen. In Valhalla, his einherjar train for the event by engaging daily battles. As detailed in the Edda , those slain in these battles were soon resurrected. For a Viking warrior, the battles at Valhalla allowed him to continue his earthly career into the afterlife, preparing for the fateful day when he would fight alongside the war-god Odin.
Jackson Crawford , an Old Norse specialist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, describes Ragnarok as being the predetermined death of the gods. To the Vikings, fate was unchangeable and an integral facet of the Norse worldview.
The brave would go to Valhalla with Odin the Allfather while the others would go to Helheim the land of the dead. But the question is how the Vikings went to Valhalla? What standards for the Vikings to become a dweller in Valhalla?
According to the saga, Odin was the ruler over Asgard and he was also the ruler of Valhalla. Valhalla meant the Great Hall for the Fallen. Those who fell in an honourable way would join Valhalla. But because the ruler of Valhalla was Odin, the warriors who wanted to join Valhalla had to worship Odin the Allfather. But with the literal and archaeological evidence, we can see that Odin was among the most worshipped gods in the Viking Age. For example, in the Viking Age, they would worship god Freyr for better agriculture and crop, god Thor for physical strength and bravery in battle, and Odin for wisdom and Valhalla.
The definition of "honourable" in the Viking Age was not quite different from ours in this day and age. A Viking man should live according to what his clan held dear: worship gods, defend family and kinsmen, faith in love and marriage, respect for women, etc.
Anyone who violated the standards of an honourable man would never be able to join Valhalla and would end up in Helheim the land of the dead. Back to the Viking Age, the Vikings not only had war with their neighbouring kingdoms like Anglo-Saxons, but the Viking also fought another Vikings.
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