Talk:Valkyrie/@comment-31430290-20170331181843

And so began the final battle of the Norse gods: the one-eyed leader Odin, hammer-wielding Thor, and the mortal comrades chosen at death to fight alongside them against the forces of Hel and the trickster god, Loki. These comrades, once human men—princes and kings—were chosen in their final breaths of life by women who moved swiftly and suddenly through grounds hazy with blood; women whose primary role was to determine which men would be immortalized to one day defend the world against Loki's powerful, nearly undefeatable army of monsters. But the tales of these women have long eroded from literature and have been recreated by Christian authors so many times, that not only is their exact role shrouded in mystery, but many of the goddesses who swept the battlefields are missing from history. While their tales are incomplete, some of their names are at least known.

http://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/slain-will-rise-again-lost-valkyries-remembered-007811