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TIL that not all Norse soldiers who die in battle go to Odin’s hall, Valhalla. Half go to Freyja’s field, Fólkvangr, which has a different hall: Sessrúmnir. Freyja rides a chariot pulled by two cats and occasionally rides her boar, Hildisvíni (who is actually her protégé Óttar, disguised).

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