>Need to die in battle to get into Valhalla or Folkvangr

They didn't get to go to Valhalla.

>>1639515
They went to hell
Their fault for not heroically dying while raiding unarmed peasants and monks

>>1639515
They went to Hel

So if someone is a real good warrior and just never gets defeated or dies in battle he gets shafted? That's bullshit.

>>1639555
There was a good part and a bad part to Hel. The warriors who died of age or whatever would go to the good part.

Valhöll or Fólkvangr = Chosen Warriors
Helheimr = people who die of Sickness or old age
Náströnd = Criminals

>>1639673
What are each of these places like?

>>1639515
Going to those places was a consolation prize for people who didn't end up in the family burial mound.

>>1639690
I'd imagine that one was good, one was okay, and one sucked balls

>>1639555


I don't remember where, and maybe I'm just mis-remembering, but I could have sworn reading somewhere in the Elder Edda that Freyja's attendant Valkries would kill superlative warriors to get them into Valhalla.

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>>1639515
Similarly to the Aztecs, the Norse believed those who died inglorious and "normal" deaths - old age, plague - would go to a gloomy, but in most aspects, rather neutral, afterlife, where they'd while eternity away with their friends and family.

>>1639555
It's alright, they could just prick themselves with a spear on their deathbed and they'd get into valhalla

>>1640659
warriors
and
genetic
dominance
is
a
truth
in
this
world
all
nations
had
warriors
if
you
were
a
shit
warrior
you
failed
at
the
game
of
life
anyways

>>1639515

You got sent somewhere else. It wasn't necessarily a bad place. Just kinda boring.

>>1640639

>If you're such a good warrior that nobody can defeat you, a Valkryie will come down and kill you herself to make sure you end up in Valhalla.

But.....what if you defeat the Valkryie?

>>1640739


I don't think that happens.