Valkyrjar
angelic sky Norse single tradition · 1
The Valkyrjar are those who choose the slain. Freyja emerges as the mythological role model for the Valkyrjar and the dísir.
When
- First attested
- 700 CE
- Attested period
- 700 – 1500
- Historical notes
- Norse religion, Viking Age.
Relationships
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Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“Siegfried Andres Dobat comments that "in her mythological role as the chooser of half the fallen warriors for her death realm Fólkvangr, the goddess Freyja, however, emerges as the mythological role model for the Valkyrjar and the dísir."”
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