The Valkyries

This group gathers Valkyries, in Norse myth, the female figures who choose which of the slain in battle are taken to Odin's hall of Valhalla and which to Freyja's. They are among the distinctive supernatural beings of the Germanic imagination.

The browser will find the Valkyrie figure or figures the atlas classes here. The entries describe their role in the myths, drawn from the Eddas and related sources, noting the medieval and literary character of the surviving evidence.