Locations named after Valhalla exist in North America ( including Valhalla, New York, Valhalla Centre, Alberta, Walhalla, Michigan, Walhalla, North Dakota, Walhalla, South Carolina, and Walhalla, Texas ), Australia ( Walhalla, Victoria ), and South Africa ( Valhalla, Pretoria ), as well as Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky.

It was held at the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, which was a contributing factor in Faldo getting the captaincy ; he had lived and worked in America for over a decade.

* Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, designed by Jack Nicklaus

Valhalla Golf Club, located east of Louisville, Kentucky, USA, is a private golf club designed by professional golfer Jack Nicklaus.

Olazábal shares the record for the lowest round in the PGA Championship ( 63 ), which he accomplished in the third round at Valhalla Golf Club in 2000.

Azinger was the U. S. Ryder Cup captain for the 2008 at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky.

Perry played in the 2008 Ryder Cup at the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky.

* United States defeats Europe to win the 2008 Ryder Cup at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is also the home of Valhalla Golf Club which hosted the 1996 and 2000 PGA Championships, and hosted the 2008 Ryder Cup.

* Lake Valhalla Club

Valhalla also hosted the 2002 PGA Club Professional Championship and the 2004 Senior PGA Championship.

In 1996, Perry was in contention at the PGA Championship held at Valhalla in his native Kentucky.

In stanza 39, Helgi, now in Valhalla, has his former enemy Hunding — also in Valhalla — do menial tasks ; fetching foot-baths for all of the men there, kindling fire, tying dogs, keeping watch of horses, and feeding the pigs before he can get any sleep.

The god Bragi asks where a thundering sound is coming from, and says that the benches of Valhalla are creaking — as if the god Baldr had returned to Valhalla — and that it sounds like the movement of a thousand.

Valhalla is prominently referenced — with the line " Valhalla, I am coming "— in the Led Zeppelin hit single " Immigrant Song " ( 1970 ).

The god Bragi asks where a thundering sound is coming from, and says that the benches of Valhalla are creaking — as if the god Baldr had returned to Valhalla — and that it sounds like the movement of a thousand.

The eponymous Jeremiah is a semi-loner who has spent the last 15 years travelling back and forth across the United States, seeking out a living and looking for a place called " Valhalla Sector ," ( the remains of Raven Rock ) which his father — a viral researcher — had mentioned to Jeremiah as a possible refuge shortly before disappearing into the chaos of " the Big Death.

The god Bragi asks where a thundering sound is coming from, and says that the benches of Valhalla are creaking — as if the god Baldr had returned to Valhalla — and that it sounds like the movement of a thousand.

Betty Richardson wrote that the store is " the Valhalla, of course, of a consumer society ... populated by acquisitive people who pose as mannequins by daylight ; by night, they emerge to grab what they want ": " Happy to sacrifice all human emotions — love, pity, integrity — for the sake of consumer goods, these denizens have their own pecking order and police.

To the west of Valhalla another large multi-ring basin — Asgard — can be found.

*" Agrarian Valhalla: The Vanderbilt 12 and Beyond " by Joseph Scotchie, Southern Events

* Games by Vulcan Software, amongst which the Valhalla trilogy

In the poem Hákonarmál, Hákon the Good is taken to Valhalla by the valkyrie Göndul and Odin sends Hermóðr and Bragi to greet him.

The poem is about the fall of King Haakon I of Norway ; although he is Christian, he is taken by two valkyries to Valhalla, and is there received as one of the Einherjar.

In Norse mythology, Valhalla ( from Old Norse Valhöll " hall of the slain ") is a majestic, enormous hall located in Asgard, ruled over by the god Odin.

Chosen by Odin, half of those who die in combat travel to Valhalla upon death, led by valkyries, while the other half go to the goddess Freyja's field Fólkvangr.

Valhalla is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla, also written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in stanzas of an anonymous 10th century poem commemorating the death of a Eric Bloodaxe known as Eiríksmál as compiled in Fagrskinna.

From stanzas 22 to 24, more details are given by Odin about Valhalla: the holy doors of the ancient gate Valgrind stand before Valhalla, Valhalla has five hundred and forty doors that eight hundred men can exit from at once ( from which the einherjar will flow forth to engage the wolf Fenrir at Ragnarök ).

Prose follows after this stanza, stating that a burial-mound was made for Helgi, and that when Helgi arrived in Valhalla, he was asked by Odin to manage things with him.

Image: Hild, Thrud and Hløkk by Frølich. jpg | Three valkyries bearing ale in Valhalla ( 1895 ) by Lorenz Frølich.

In chapter 40, Gangleri muses that Valhalla must be quite crowded, to which High responds by stating that Valhalla is massive and remains roomy despite the large amount of inhabitants, and then quotes Grímnismál stanza 23.

Valhalla is additionally referenced in the phrase " visiting Odin " in a work by the 10th century skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir describing that, upon his death, King Vanlandi went to Valhalla.

The composition is by an anonymous author from the 10th century and is referred to as Eiríksmál, and describes Eric Bloodaxe and five other kings arriving in Valhalla after their death.

Image: Heimdallr and valkyries by Frølich. jpg | A depiction of valkyries encountering the god Heimdallr as they carry a dead man to Valhalla ( 1906 ) by Lorenz Frølich.

Examples of the latter include the Walhalla temple built by Leo von Klenze for Ludwig I of Bavaria between 1830 – 1847 near Regensburg, Germany, and the Tresco Abbey Gardens Valhalla museum built by August Smith around 1830 to house ship figureheads from shipwrecks that occurred at the Isles of Scilly, England, where the museum is located.

Examples include K. Ehrenberg's charcoal illustration Gastmahl in Walhalla ( mit einziehenden Einheriern ) ( 1880 ), Richard Wagner's depiction of Valhalla in his opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen ( 1848 – 1874 ), the Munich, Germany-based Germanic Neopagan magazine Walhalla ( 1905 – 1913 ), and the comic series Valhalla ( 1978, ongoing ) by Peter Madsen, and its subsequent animated film of the same name ( 1986 ).

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Valhalla is located within Asgard.

Instead he resorts to a debunking device: Gylfi, king of Sweden before the Æsir, travels to Asgard and finds there a large hall ( Valhalla ) in Section 2.

In the poem Eiríksmál Odin, in Valhalla, hears the coming of the dead Norwegian king Eric Bloodaxe and his host, and bids the heroes Sigmund and Sinfjötli rise to greet him.

In these poems Bragi could be either a god or a dead hero in Valhalla.

On icy as opposed to rocky bodies, other morphological forms appear which may have central pits rather than central peaks, and at the largest sizes may contain very many concentric rings – Valhalla on Callisto is the type example of the latter.

He is interred in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.

In chapter 38, High says that there are many men in Valhalla, and many more who will arrive, yet they will " seem too few when the wolf comes.

Freyja rules over her heavenly afterlife field Fólkvangr and there receives half of those that die in battle, whereas the other half go to the god Odin's hall, Valhalla.

" A shoot of wood grows west of Valhalla.

Grand Pianola Music ( 1982 ): Adams commented, " Dueling pianos, cooing sirens, Valhalla brass, thwacking bass drums, gospel triads, and a Niagara of cascading flat keys all learned to cohabit as I wrote the piece.

* 7. 3 ( Valhalla ), May 6, 2002 ( Linux 2. 4. 18-3 )

Inevitably, the real ale-producing Valhalla Brewery is the most northerly in Britain.

The defeated combatants were either transported to an alternate reality where medical technology was advanced enough that they could be revived from any wound or transported to the alternate reality that was Valhalla.

In Valhalla, the dead join the masses of those who have died in combat known as Einherjar, as well as various legendary Germanic heroes and kings, as they prepare to aid Odin during the events of Ragnarök.

Various creatures live around Valhalla, such as the stag Eikþyrnir and the goat Heiðrún, both described as standing atop Valhalla and consuming the foliage of the tree Læraðr.

Valhalla has inspired various works of art, publication titles, popular culture references, and has become a term synonymous with a martial ( or otherwise ) hall of the chosen dead.