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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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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.
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Aug 19, 2024 · Valhalla. (Norse mythology) The home of half of all warriors who died gloriously in battle as well as many of the Æsir. 1791 May 1, “Moore's Inquiry into the Subject of Suicide”, in Monthly Review [1], London, pages 24–25: [S]uch souls as were detruded from the body by any violent method went strait to Valhalla.
Combining both accessibility and authority, The Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins describes the origins and development of over 3,000 words and phrases in the English language.
Detailed analysis of 55 words of previously “unknown” etymology. The book thoroughly explores the etymology and scholarly history of that etymology for each word. It’s more valuable for the explication of the etymological process than for the scope of words covered.
