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Oct 13, 2017 · Valhalla. (n.) heavenly hall in which Odin receives the souls of heroes slain in battle, 1696 (in Archdeacon Nicolson's "English Historical Library"), from Old Norse Valhöll "hall of the battle-slain;" first element from valr "those slain in battle," from Proto-Germanic *walaz (source also of Old English wæl "slaughter, bodies of the slain ...
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Valhalla 뜻: 발할라; 오딘이 전투에서 죽은 영웅들의 영혼을 받는 천상의 전당, 1696년...
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Valhalla (n.) Himmlischer Saal, in dem Odin die Seelen der...
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Aug 19, 2024 · Valhall. Etymology. [edit] From New Latin, from Old Norse Valhǫll (from valr (“dead warriors”) + hǫll (“hall”)). Pronunciation. [edit] (UK) IPA (key): /vælˈhælə/ (US, Canada) IPA (key): /vælˈhælə/, /vɑlˈhɑlə/ Rhymes: -ælə, -ɑːlə. Audio (Canada): Proper noun. [edit]
The Modern English noun Valhalla derives from Old Norse Valhǫll, a compound noun composed of two elements: the masculine noun valr 'the slain' and the feminine noun hǫll 'hall'. The form "Valhalla" comes from an attempt to clarify the grammatical gender of the word.
book. Etymology is the investigation of word histories. It has traditionally been concerned most especially with those word histories in which the racts are not certain, and where a hypothesis has to be constructed to account either for a word's origin or for a stage in its history. That might be a stage in its
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Earliest known use. mid 1700s. The earliest known use of the noun Valhalla is in the mid 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for Valhalla is from 1768, in the writing of Thomas Gray, poet and literary scholar. Valhalla is a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin Valhalla. See etymology.
Valhalla (pronounced “val-HALL-uh”; Old Norse Valhöll, “the hall of the fallen” [1]) is the hall where the god Odin houses the dead whom he deems worthy of dwelling with him. According to the Old Norse poem Grímnismál (“The Song of the Hooded One”), the roof of the “gold-bright” Valhalla is made of shields, and has spears for ...
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