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Description acceptable. Eric Bloodaxe’s conversion to one of these beings causes a thunderous sound heard by Bragi. One poem claims these beings’ numbers will “seem too few when the wolf comes.” Vingolf (20[1])is home (20[1])to some of these beings, (0[2])who accompany the gods to the field (20[1])Vígríðr (20[1]0[1])(“veeg-REER”) after Gjallarhorn (20[3])is blown. (20[4]0[2])These people (0[1])drink milk from the goat (20[1])Heidrun, (20[2])and eat meat (20[2]0[1])from (20[1])the resurrecting (20[1])(*) boar (10[2])Sæhrímnir, alongside the wolves Geri and Freki and their owner. (10[1])After their death in battle, (10[1])these people are chosen (0[1])by shieldmaidens, (10[1]0[1])and then fight every day (0[1])for sport and return at night (10[1])to a hall to feast. Valkyries select, for 10 points, what beings who train under Odin’s (0[1])service until Ragnarok? (10[1]0[1])■END■ (10[6]0[1])

ANSWER: einherjar [accept any description of people in Valhalla or humans in Valhalla, accept any description of Odin’s warriors or fighters; prompt on people or humans or warriors or soldiers or Vikings or individuals selected by Valkyries or equivalents with “where are they?”; prompt on dead people / humans / warriors / soldiers / Vikings with “where did they go after they die?”]
<Lalit Maharjan, RMP - World Mythology&gt; ~24929~ &lt;Editor: Jaimie Carlson>
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