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Valhalla   /vˌælhˈælə/   Listen
Valhalla

noun
(Written also walhalla)
1.
(Norse mythology) the hall in which the souls of heros slain in battle were received by Odin.  Synonym: Walhalla.





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... Supper, the twelve Apostles bringing the number up to thirteen, while others attributed it to a much earlier period. In Norse mythology, thirteen was considered unlucky, because at a banquet in Valhalla, the Scandinavian heaven, where twelve had sat down, Loki intruded and made the number thirteen, ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor


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