Valhalla

in Scandinavian mythology, is the great hall or refectory of Gladsheim, the palace of the Æsir or Asgard. The Times, speaking of Westminster Abbey, says “The Abbey is our Valhalla.”

“We both must pass from earth away,

Valhalla’s joys to see;

And if I wander there to-day,

To-morrow may fetch thee.”

Frithiof-Saga, lay xi.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Valhalla

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