File:Valkyries- Full Breakdown and Understanding

What are the real Valkyries from Norse mythology. This video goes over all the sources that mention them and speaks about the idea of what they really are

Poetic Edda https://amzn.to/3eBp4Kq

Prose Edda(from my online shop) https://norse-combat-sportswear.myshopify.com/products/the-prose-edda

Skaldic poems(most of them in the prose edda or heimskringla) https://norse-combat-sportswear.myshopify.com/products/heimskringla-lives-of-the-norse-kings

Njals Saga https://amzn.to/3HmAs9q

Video on Hugr and soul traveling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5q8hQ5WRh0&t=1s

Video on Shapeshifting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZzV846UXhE&t=858s

Video on women on the battlefield casting magic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0gewITHMwU&t=185s

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Old Norse valkyrja "chooser of the slain") is one of a host of female figures who choose those who may die in battle and those who may live. Selecting among half of those who die in battle go to Fólkvangr, Freyjas afterlife, the other half go to the god Odin's hall called Valhalla. There, the deceased warriors become einherjar. When the einherjar are not preparing for the events of Ragnarök, the valkyries bear them mead. Valkyries also appear as lovers of heroes and other mortals, where they are sometimes described as the daughters of royalty, sometimes accompanied by ravens and sometimes connected to swans or horses.

Valkyries are attested in the Poetic Edda, the Prose Edda, the Heimskringla and the Njáls saga, all written—or compiled—in the 13th century. They appear throughout the poetry of skalds, in a 14th-century charm, and in various runic inscriptions.