~ Valhalla ~

She owns Hildesvini ("battle boar") which is actually her human lover
Ottar in disguise. Her chambermaid is Fulla.
Freya lives in the beautiful palace Folkvang ("field of folk"),
a place where love songs are always played, and her hall is Sessrumnir.
She divides the slain warriors with Odin: one half goes to her palace, while the other half goes to Valhalla. Women also go to her hall.

Odin is a god of war and death, but also the god of poetry and wisdom. He hung for nine days, pierced by his own spear, on the world tree.
Here he learned nine powerful songs, and eighteen runes. Odin can make the dead speak to question the wisest amongst them.
His hall in Asgard is Valaskjalf ("shelf of the slain") where his throne Hlidskjalf is located.
From this throne he observes all that happens in the nine worlds. The tidings are brought to him by his two raven Huginn and Muninn.
He also resides in Valhalla where the slain warriors are taken.
Odin's attributes are the spear Gungnir, which never misses its target, the ring Draupnir, from which every ninth night eight new rings appear,
and his eight-footed steed Sleipnir. He is accompanied by the wolves Freki and Geri,
to whom he gives his food for he himself consumes nothing but wine. Odin has only one eye, which blazes like the sun.
His other eye he traded for a drink from the Well of Wisdom, and gained immense knowledge. On the day of the final battle,
Odin will be killed by the wolf Fenrir.

Ragnarok ("Doom of the Gods"), also called Gotterdammerung, means the end of the cosmos in Norse mythology. It will be preceded by Fimbulvetr, the winter of winters. Three such winters will follow each other with no summers in between. Conflicts and feuds will break out, even between families, and all morality will disappear. This is the beginning of the end.

The earth will shudder with earthquakes, and every bond and fetter will burst, freeing the terrible wolf Fenrir. The sea will rear up because Jormungand, the Midgard Serpent, is twisting and writhing in fury as he makes his way toward the land. With every breath, Jormungand will stain the soil and the sky with his poison. The waves caused by the serpent's emerging will set free the ship Naglfar, and with the giant Hymir as their commander, the giants will sail towards the battlefield. From the realm of the dead a second ship will set sail, and this ship carries the inhabitants of hell, with Loki as their helmsman. The fire giants, led by the giant Surt, will leave Muspell in the south to join against the gods. Surt, carrying a sword that blazes like the sun itself, will scorch the earth.

Then Surt will fling fire in every direction. The nine worlds will burn, and friends and foes alike will perish. The earth will sink into the sea. After the destruction, a new and idyllic world will arise from the sea and will be filled with abundant supplies. Some of the gods will survive, others will be reborn. Wickedness and misery will no longer exist and gods and men will live happily together. The descendants of Lif and Lifthrasir will inhabit this earth.Ragnarök does not mean "Twilight of the Gods"; that phrase is the result of a famous mistranslation. "Ragnarökr" or "Ragnarøkr" means "doom of the powers" or "destruction of the powers" (where "powers" means "gods"

             In Norse mythology,
             Freja is a goddess of love and fertility,
             and the most beautiful and
             propitious of the goddesses.
She is the patron goddess of crops and birth,
the symbol of sensuality and was called upon in matters of love.
She loves music, spring and flowers,
and is particularly fond of the elves (fairies).
Freja is one of the foremost goddesses of the Vanir.

She is the daughter of the god Njord, and the sister of Freja.
Later she married the mysterious god Od (probably another form of Odin),who disappeared.
When she mourned for her lost husband, her tears changed into gold.

Her attributes are the precious necklace of the Brisings, which she obtained by sleeping with four dwarfs,
          a cloak (or skin) of bird feathers,
           which allows its wearer to change into a falcon,
              and a chariot pulled by two cats.

Valhalla, Hall of the Slain, in Norse mythology is the hall presided over by Odin. This vast hall has five hundred and forty doors.
The rafters are spears, the hall is roofed with shields and breast-plates litter the benches.
A wolf guards the western door and an eagle hovers over it.
It is here that the Valkyries, Odin's messengers and spirits of war, bring half of the heroes that died on the battle fields
(the rest go to Freya's hall Folkvang).

Meanwhile, Heimdall will sound his horn, calling the sons of Odin and the heroes to the battlefield. From all the corners of the world, gods, giants, dwarves, demons and elves will ride towards the huge plain of Vigrid ("battle shaker") where the last battle will be fought. Odin will engage Fenrir in battle, and Thor will attack Jormungand. Thor will victorious, but the serpent's poison will gradually kill the god of thunder. Surt will seek out the swordless Freyr, who will quickly succumb to the giant. The one-handed Tyr will fight the monstrous hound Garm and they will kill each other. Loki and Heimdall, age-old enemies, will meet for a final time, and neither will survive their encounter.
The fight between Odin and Fenrir will rage for a long time, but finally Fenrir will seize Odin and swallow him.
Odin's son Vidar will at once leap towards the wolf and kill him with his bare hands, ripping the wolf's jaws apart.