Word: eddic
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...great wall for a defense, and around the whole ran the roaring stream of death. This river was more terrible than could ever be described by mortal power, and the monsters that filled the waters were all the more dreadful from being so vaguely described in the Eddic poems. Within Walhalla reigned Odin, the god of wind and war, and his subjects were the soulds of warriors who had perished in battle. No men who died peaceably in bed could expect to have their souls mount to Walhalla, the palace of happiness, where the warrior's life was so idealized...
...hall of the reigning goddess. A wall and river which surrounded this seem to be almost identically the same as those which the higher families believed were about Walhalla. Much dispute has arisen as to the unity and consistency of the beliefs in Walhalla and Hel. Some of the Eddic songs speak of Hel and Walhalla separately. while others do not mention the latter at all. The beliefs are inconsistent, because by one all souls are sent to the gloomy land, and by the other warriors have everlasting happiness...