Editing Fólkvangr (section)

==Attestations==
In the poem ''[[Grímnismál]]'' collected in the ''Poetic Edda'', Odin (disguised, or ''[[List of names of Odin|Grímnir]]'') tells the young [[Agnarr Geirröðsson|Agnar]] that Freyja allots seats in her hall Fólkvangr to half of those that die, while Odin receives the other half (''Fólkvangr'' is here anglicized to ''Fôlkvang'' and ''Folkvang''):

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<small>[[Benjamin Thorpe]] translation:</small>
:Fôlkvang is the ninth, there Freyia directs
:the sittings in the hall.
:She half the fallen chooses each day,
:but Odin th' other half.<ref name="THORPE21">Thorpe (1907:21).</ref>
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<small>[[Henry Adams Bellows (businessman)|Henry Adams Bellows]] translation:</small>
:The ninth is Folkvang, where Freyja decrees
:Who shall have seats in the hall;
:The half of the dead each day does she choose,
:And half does Othin have.<ref name="BELLOWS90-91">Bellows (1923:90–91).</ref>
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In chapter 24 of the ''Prose Edda'' book ''[[Gylfaginning]]'', [[High, Just-As-High, and Third|High]] tells [[Gylfi|Gangleri]] (described as king [[Gylfi]] in disguise) that Freyja is "the most glorious of the [[Æsir|ásynjur]]", that Freyja has a dwelling in the heavens called Fólkvangr, and that "whenever she rides to battle she gets half of the slain, and the other half Odin, as it says here: [the stanza above from ''Grímnismál'' is then quoted]". High then continues with a description of Freyja's hall Sessrúmnir.<ref name=FAULKES24>Faulkes (1995:24).</ref>