Valhalla

UK/vælˈhælə/US/vælˈhælə/

Valhalla proper noun: the home of half of all warriors who died gloriously in battle as well as many of the Æsir.

Proper noun

Valhalla

(Norse) The home of half of all warriors who died gloriously in battle as well as many of the Æsir.
- [S]uch souls as were detruded from the body by any violent method went strait to Valhalla. (Latin original: Nostratibus sane hoc erat infallibiliter persuasum, animas, non vulgares, neque senio morbove, sec cruenta morte & vi corporibus exeuntes, recta ad Vahlallam ferri)1791 May 1, “Moore's Inquiry into the Subject of Suicide”, in Monthly Review, London, pages 24–25
- In some poems they are envisaged as divine figures, women who serve mead to the dead warriors in Valhall, and who fulfil the will of Odin in overseeing battle and making sure that victory is awarded to the right man.1996, Carolyne Larrington, The Poetic Edda, Folio Society, published 2016, page xvii
A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York, United States.
- Investigators are not sure why the woman’s Mercedes SUV stopped on the tracks Tuesday night in Valhalla, about 30 miles north of New York City, National Transportation Safety Board Member Robert Sumwalt said Wednesday.2015 February 4, Ray Sanchez and Ben Brumfield, “6 killed when train hits SUV in New York”, in CNN Business

Valhalla (plural Valhallas)

(broadly) An abode of the gods or afterlife in general.
- “The swans are singing again,” said to one another the gods. And looking downwards, for my dreams had taken me to some fair and far Valhalla, I saw below me an iridescent bubble not greatly larger than a star shine beautifully but faintly, and up and up from it looking larger and larger came a...1915 April, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “The Return of Song”, in Fifty-one Tales, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, →OCLC
- That we possessed no Westminster Abbey must have touched his native pride somewhere, and he has set out to remove the slur by building and endowing a lordly private Valhalla on one of his seventeen estates for the last sleep of the great.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

வீரத்துறக்கம்

in Norse mythology, the home of warriors slain gloriously in battle: فَالْهُول fālhūl, فَالْهَالَا fālhālā

in Norse mythology, the home of warriors slain gloriously in battle: والهالا vâlhâlâ

“Assassin’s Creed Valhalla,” about Vikings and Norse mythology, debuted on November 10, the same day as the Xbox Series X.2020 November 15, Shannon Liao, “Next-gen consoles are here. So are the games”, in CNN Business:
You will all go directly to your respective Valhallas / Go directly, do not pass 'GO', do not collect two hundred dollars1959, Tom Lehrer, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”:

From New Latin, from Old Norse Valhǫll (from valr (“dead warriors”) + hǫll (“hall”)).

What does Valhalla mean?: Valhalla means the home of half of all warriors who died gloriously in battle as well as many of the Æsir.
What is Valhalla in Tamil?: Valhalla in Tamil is வீரத்துறக்கம். See Valhalla meaning in Tamil.
How do you use Valhalla in a sentence?: “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla,” about Vikings and Norse mythology, debuted on November 10, the same day as the Xbox Series X.
What part of speech is Valhalla?: Valhalla can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Valhalla?: Valhalla is pronounced /vælˈhælə/ (UK).

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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