Editing Ýdalir (section)

==Theories==
Discussing Ýdalir, [[Henry Adams Bellows (businessman)|Henry Adams Bellows]] comments that "the wood of the yew-tree was used for bows in the North just as it was long afterwards for England."<ref name=BELLOWS88>{{harvcoltxt|Bellows|2004|p=88}}.</ref> [[Rudolf Simek]] says that "this connexion of the god with the yew-tree, of whose wood bows were made (cf. ON ''ýbogi'' 'yew bow'), has led to Ullr being seen as a bow-god."<ref name=SIMEK375>{{harvcoltxt|Simek|2007|p=375}}.</ref> Andy Orchard comments that Ýdalir is an "aptly named dwelling-place [for the] [[Archery|archer]]-god, Ull."<ref name=ORCHARD185/> According to [[Hilda Ellis Davidson]], while Valhalla "is well known because it plays so large a part in images of warfare and death," the significance of other halls in Norse mythology such as Ýdalir, and the goddess [[Freyja]]'s afterlife location [[Fólkvangr]] has been lost.<ref name=DAVIDSON199367>{{harvcoltxt|Davidson|1993|p=67}}.</ref>

[[Udale]], located in [[Cromarty]], [[Scotland]], is first recorded in 1578, and is thought to derive from Old Norse ''y-dalr''. Robert Bevan-Jones proposes a connection between veneration of Ullr and Ýdalir among the settling pagan Norse in Scotland and their bestowment of the name ''ydalr'' to the location.<ref name="BEVAN-JONES134">{{harvcoltxt|Bevan-Jones|2002|p=134}}.</ref>