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valhalla
Part of speech: NounIn Scand. myth., the palace or hall of immortality inhabited by the souls of heroes slain in battle; in Germany, a national building in which the statues of persons assumed to be worthy of immortality are placed.
Usage examples "valhalla":- Canute's soul would rise up in Valhalla and curse them, if they took the value of a penny from St. Guthlac. - "Hereward, The Last of the English", Charles Kingsley.
- There are also the tombs of thirty- two archbishops,- a veritable valhalla of churchly fame. - "The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine", Francis Miltoun.
- Trumbull's place as one of the " Seven Traitors" who voted not guilty on the impeachment of Andrew Johnson is now universally considered a proud position, and I think that that of his neighbor and friend, James R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, who earned the title of traitor a year or two earlier, is entitled to a place in the same Valhalla. - "The Life of Lyman Trumbull", Horace White.