The Viking god of rock, and member of the Justice Friends. Born in a small village near Göteborg, Sweden, but moved to Pasadena, California at an early age.
An absence from work where you combine your vacation time and your recession related furlough into an extended break.
Doug: "Hey Annie, I heard your work furloughed you for a week in December?"
Annie: "Yeah, it sucks, but I'm taking my vacation the following week and going to Hawaii for 2 weeks on vacalough."
Doug: "Lucky Bitch!"
From the Norse "Val" meaning warrior or hero, and "halla" meaning hall. This was one possible afterlife for those who believed in Norse Mythology, where you went if you fought and died in a hopeless battle for an ideal. This afterlife was not eternal, however. On the day of Ragnarok, you would fight and perish alongside the gods.
The Golden Hall. Odin's very own Hall of the Slain. The place a Valkyrie would take you if you died with honor on the battlefield. Where all of the Einherjer would feast every day and fight to the death every night in preparation of the Ragnarok.
the 'heaven' of the norse men.
believed that you went there when you died a heroic death, or you kissed a beautiful lady before you died
Lo there do i see my father.
Lo there do i see my mother, my sisters, and my brothers.
Lo there do i see the line of my people back to the beginning.
They do call for me,
They bid me take my place amoung them in the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live forever.
quote from 13th warrior starring antonio banderas