> Everyone who beleived in Odin did. They wanted to die fighting to get there. How can you fail to get this. You don't get the big picture. The Sagas weren't written by Heathens. They were written by (((Christians))) trying to document the old ways. Some of it is accurate. A lot of this was propaganda to discredit Heathens. And a lot of this was genuine mistakes simply caused by mapping (((Christian))) values onto Heathen values. So, there's a lot of data we have to sift through and reconstruct. The (((Christians))) who wrote down the Eddas were projecting their own reasoning onto the Heathens. For them, dying to go to heaven was important because the (((Jews))) brainwashed them into thinking this is important. So, why would the Vikings raid Lindisfarne? Obviously, because this monk just returned from the crusades, it is fresh in his mind, he just raided to get into heaven, so that must be the case for the Heathens. Right? Here's the deal. The raid on Lindisfarne wasn't a holy war. The (((Jews))) had gold piled up in the monastery and the Vikings wanted it. Simple as that. They were pirates bringing gold home to their people. Here's what you don't hear from the Eddas (which are also incomplete). Odin isn't the only one who had a hall. There are at least two others that we know of. Freyja's field of Fólkvangr. And the Hall of Hel (Not to be confused with Hell). Warriors also go to Fólkvangr, not just Valhalla. But Hel is reserved for people other than warriors. And since the Eddas are incomplete, it's assumed all the Gods have halls of their own. Which diminishes the narrative of dying to go to "Heaven". You just go someplace depending on what you liked doing. *"You like warfare? Well, Odin is a war god, go hang out with him!"* There was no point in "dying for it". Because you went to an afterlife anyway. It wasn't a "reward". It was just something that happened. If you were a farmer, you went to some hall of a God who liked farming. The concept of being rewarded with an afterlife is a (((Christian))) concept. The (((Christians))) who wrote down the Eddas mapped their own conception of the afterlife onto Heathenry because they didn't know any better. They were brainwashed by the (((Jew))) into thinking that's how it works. As such, the importance of an afterlife is exagerated. We don't put much stock into the Eddas. They aren't our equivalent of the (((Bible))). We don't take them literally as the (((Christians))) consider the (((Bible))). You can't think of it the same way (((Christians))) think of it. It doesn't work like that.