Read the following text from a myth. This excerpt is about warriors’ afterlife in Valhalla.

To arrive in Valhalla, the fallen warriors had to cross a large, noisy river. Once there, Odin welcomed them heartily. He had straw strewn on the benches in the hall to make them comfortable; he had all the goblets polished. . . .

And what a fine routine met these warriors there in Valhalla. Every night they feasted on overflowing platters of pork from the beast Saehrimnir, roasted in the cauldron Eldhrimnir by the soot-covered cook Andhrimnir. . . . Every day they battled together, and those who fell in these heavenly battles simply rose again at the end of the day and marched through the 540 doors of the hall to join the feast anew, since everything regenerated of its own accord.

From Donna Jo Napoli, Treasury of Norse Mythology: Stories of Intrigue, Trickery, Love, and Revenge. Copyright 2015 by Donna Jo Napoli