Valhalla

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim The home of half of all warriors who died gloriously in battle as well as many of the Æsir.

   “[S]uch souls as were detruded from the body by any violent method went strait to Valhalla. (Latin original: Nostratibus sane hoc erat infallibiliter persuasum, animas, non vulgares, neque senio morbove, sec cruenta morte & vi corporibus exeuntes, recta ad Vahlallam ferri)”

2. özel isim A hamlet and census-designated place in Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York, United States.

   “Investigators are not sure why the woman’s Mercedes SUV stopped on the tracks Tuesday night in Valhalla, about 30 miles north of New York City, National Transportation Safety Board Member Robert Sumwalt said Wednesday.”

3. isim An abode of the gods or afterlife in general.

   “That we possessed no Westminster Abbey must have touched his native pride somewhere, and he has set out to remove the slur by building and endowing a lordly private Valhalla on one of his seventeen estates for the last sleep of the great.”