Talk:Valhalla

message: Why are all the pictures of Walhalla, that is an entirely different temple?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.155.1.218 (talk) 17:59, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Walhalla?!

message: "With 500 hundred doors" --so is that an unintended redundancy, or the way the mythology is presented in translation?  (In other words, 50,000 doors or 500?
:er, I see what you mean... Too early in the morning... I'll fix it... sjc
::800 doors is the right  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.59.22.46 (talk) 00:57, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it's five hundred doors. OKelly (talk) 03:14, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: 500 Doors

message: Where does Loki fit into all of this. The fact that he is still alive after Thor 2 and he has taken Odin's place on the throne, clearly shows that Loki is now the supreme ruler of Asgard. Therefore he is the righteous ruler of Valhalla. Complimenting this issue is the fact that Odin did not truly die. Please fix this monstrous issue!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Albert11317 (talk • contribs) 18:59, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: HUGE ISSUE!

message: I would like to organize the articles that deal with an otherworld as a real existence.  I propose that Afterlife would be the best hub for such articles.  Eschatology and Underworld are other possibilities, but I don't think they work as well as Afterlife.  Any thoughts on such a project? Please come to Talk:Afterlife to discuss. Tom (hawstom) 14:48, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Organizing Afterlife Articles

message: A new proposal on representation of Norse mythology names is now up for a vote. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 00:51, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming convention vote notice

message: I would like to know if there`s any symbol of einherjar like the Triple Horn of Odin is a stylized emblem of Odin? If there is such sign could you show me? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.131.12.62 (talk) 15:56, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Einherjar 

message: On the Valkyrie page, it explains that 'Val' is 'to choose' and Kyrie comes from what was 'the slain'..
now if that is true...then would Valhalla, or Valholl etc. technically translate into 'The Hall of the Chosen' instead of the 'Hall of the Slain' ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.4.72.141 (talk • contribs) 01:12, 7 March 2007
:The Valkyrie page has been corrected, "Val" does indeed mean "the slain". I have updated this article accordingly. --Boesvig (talk) 03:41, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: There was some absurdly long thing about a Neopets Valhalla tacked onto the end of this article. I removed it. I recommend that, if that stuff's going to be put in Wikipedia at all, it be put in the Neopets article and not here, especially if it's going to be that long. That or stick it as a separate article in the disambiguation page.  Cwilli201 05:30, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neopets Removal 

message: aren't posting lyrics to a song against wikipedia policy? i've seen them removed before due to copyright issues or something along those lines.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.81.92.220 (talk) 04:45, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Led Zeppelin lyrics 

message: why does this article don't have a category????--190.86.120.45 (talk) 17:22, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Categorization 

message: This article is solid up top, then becomes atrocious!  Why are the pop culture references taking up three-fourths of the page?  I went ahead and trimmed out about a third of the references, removing mere names ("this guy said Valhalla in a TV show with no context to it") and repeated references while leaving in real purposeful references to it...  209.184.165.20 (talk) 21:00, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cultural References

message: From where does this information "átta hundruð" here indicates a "big hundred" - 120 - which would mean 960 and not 800" come from, please? This confusion between the two numbers is planet wide, internet articles and both academically checked encyclopedias showing both numbers. As a person familiar with Scandinavian languages, I can say that "átta hundruð" (åtta hundra) means literally eight-hundred (and nothing else in modern Scandinavian languages). Supposing, if that meant 120, instead of 100, how did they then say 100?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.22.247.220 (talk) 07:55, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is per the source I'm working with, which I've provided: Larrington, Carolyne (Trans.) (1999). The Poetic Edda. Oxford World's Classics. . Pages 55 and 270. :bloodofox: (talk) 08:08, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Haha, wow, yeah, she just flatly states "this is the so-called 'long hundred' = 120". And how, pray tell, does she know that? This reminds me of the "no heathen personification of summer, nosiree!" we discussed yesterday. Anyway, it's unclear whether Larrington's footnote applies just to "eight hundred" or also to "five hundred". Personally I think it's much more likely that we have the small hundred here because then the number matches up with a number from the ancient mythology of other peoples. Simek touches on this in his Valhalla entry. Haukur (talk) 08:43, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I just check Hellquist's etymological dictionary on the matter. He says that the word simply referred to 100, 120 or just "an indeterminate number of people". Consequently átta hundruð could simply have meant "eight large groups". --Berig (talk) 15:30, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Changing the sentence to "8 long hundreds" (piped to directly to Hundred (word)) would nicely solve the problem, though the Hundred (word) article itself obviously needs work. :bloodofox: (talk) 05:43, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have no objections to that. Good that you brought it to the talk, IP-man, that was what I wanted ;) –Holt  T•C 14:41, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  800 or 960 men? 

message: The caption of :Image:Walhalla (1896) by Max Brückner.jpg is Walhalla. Is Valhalla also known as Walhalla? Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 09:57, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I got my answer from Bloodofox. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 10:01, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: For anyone else who may be wondering, in German w has the value of v and v has the value of f. Therefore one encounters "Walhalla" rather than "Valhalla" (as Valhalla would be pronounced something like Falhalla in German)  and "Walküre" rather than "Valkyrie" (as this would result in Falkyrie). :bloodofox: (talk) 10:30, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, German accepts loan-words with 'v' in them, logical spelling or not (:de:Videotechnik) but in this case the German 'w' is the letter etymologically corresponding to the Norse 'v', I bet that has something to do with it. In fact, it would not be illogical for English to spell loan-words from Norse with a 'w' and sometimes you do see words like wiking in (older) English texts. The Old Norse initial 'v' was certainly pronounced more like English 'w' than English 'v'. Haukur (talk) 10:46, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: Should the Halo 3 map of the same name be referenced under modern influence? --Big picture (talk) 00:05, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Ask yourself this question: how notable is a user map appearing in a video game? Should we mention a joke referencing Valhalla that appeared on a bubble gum wrapper in 1973? Think about the big picture. :bloodofox: (talk) 01:44, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's a perfectly valid question, just because it's new media it shouldn't be discounted out of hand. Valhalla is one of the most popular maps on one of the biggests games of this generation. There ought to be at least a passing referene under modern influence as Norse mythology obviously influenced the developers of the game.--90.219.15.110 (talk) 09:43, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If we were to add everything that bore the name Valhalla, we'd end up with a long and detailed list of non-notable trivia. See point 6 of WP:NOTDIR. What we want is a short summary of important appearances of the concept Valhalla in modern culture, which means that very much has to be excluded. –Holt (T•C) 22:50, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The Valhalla map on Halo has nothing to do with the Norse Valhalla. OKelly (talk) 03:17, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Halo 3

message: walhalla isn't the correct name. it is simple -walhall- which means -hall of the fallen-. at the german wiki it is better explained —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.234.168.234 (talk • contribs) 22:36, March 24, 2009 (UTC)
:Strictly speaking, Valhöll would be the correct name, as that is the original Old Norse name. In English the name is generally anglicized as Valhalla and Walhalla, while in German you most oftenly see Walhall. Adding the -a does by no means imply that it is Valaskjálf we are speaking about. –Holt (T•C) 13:41, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If Valhöll is a composite word made from Valir which means 'slain, slaughtered' and höll which is 'palace, hall', I think this should be mentioned in the article. Bigshotnews 04:36, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Valhöll is Icelandic not Old Norse! Valhǫll is the correct one as this yields Swedish (and Norwegian and (?)Danish) Valhall and Icelandic Valhöll. If you want the really old unassimilated one it's ValhǫlR.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Servus Triviae (talk • contribs) 00:01, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: To be clear, we're forced to render the o-ogonek as an o-umlaut for technical reasons: many devices do not currently display the o-ogonek. :bloodofox: (talk) 22:57, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct name 

message: It clearly from Valahala's legend as it is a SF version of Valahala. IMO could be added to modern influence.
210.245.184.21 (talk) 03:34, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a nebula of tiny pop culture references to Valhalla out there, and this is simply one of them. References this small do not need merit mention here until we can cite a solid source that goes in depth on the subject of modern pop cultural references to Valhalla (which may well eventually appear). :bloodofox: (talk) 14:25, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Quake III's Arena Eternal

message: Doesn't warrant being mentioned in Modern Influence  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.70.229.196 (talk) 18:32, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed mention to obscure Andriod ROM 

message: I'm confused about why people say "ValR" means the plural of the battlefield slain. Ending with the R without a vowel is the typical singular masculine noun in old norse. It is not a plural form, as far as I know.
So I assume it would be:
Val = battlefield. This word is still used poetically in Danish.
ValR = dead guy on the battlefield. Singular masculine noun ending. Similar structure as in modern English, where "a fight" is a noun, and "a fighter" is a guy who participates in a fight.
Valar = dead guys on the battlefield. Standard plural masculine form.
So it should be "Valarhalla" if it meant "Hall of battlefield slain"
I think it actually means "Battlefield Hall"
The difference is of course mostly academic.
77.233.228.141 (talk) 14:00, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name, again