Picture stone, Swedish History Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

Woman or valkyrie with drinking horn, welcoming a horseman to Valhalla, the abode of the god Odin and the warriors' paradise, detail from a limestone picture stone from a grave, 8th century, from Garda, Bote, Gotland, in the Swedish History Museum, a history and archaeology museum founded 1866, in Stockholm, Sweden. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Woman or valkyrie with drinking horn, welcoming a horseman to Valhalla, the abode of the god Odin and the warriors' paradise, detail from a limestone picture stone from a grave, 8th century, from Garda, Bote, Gotland, in the Swedish History Museum, a history and archaeology museum founded 1866, in Stockholm, Sweden. Picture by Manuel Cohen