What is Valhalla?

   In northern mythology, Valhalla is the chief hall in Asgard, the banqueting house of the Aesir, there entertained by Odin along with the Valr, or Einherjar, chosen by the Valkyrjur. Valhall has 540 doors, through each of which 800 Einherjar may pass abreast. In front is the grove Glasir, whose leaves are golden. W. of the door is a great wolf, and overhead a crouching eagle. Gleaming swords light up the hall. The roof trees are spears, the roof itself is formed of shields, and the seats are covered with shirts of mail. The Einherjar eat the flesh of the boar Saehrimnir, which is cooked every day, and at night is restored whole as before; and drink mead, whieh flows from the udder of the goat Heidrun. Every day the Einherjar array themselves in armor and go forth into the fields to fight and fell one another. This is their pastime; as it draws to breakfast time they ride back to Valhall, where they sit down to feast. After Odin's Valhall for slain heroes is named the Walhalla or Hall of Fame built by King Ludwig I of Bavaria at Donaustauf, near Regensburg to include the busts of great Germans whom he had chosen.