Editing Einherjar (section)

===''Poetic Edda''===
[[Image:Hild, Thrud and Hløkk by Frølich.jpg|thumb|Three valkyries bearing ale in Valhalla (1895) by [[Lorenz Frølich]]]]
In the poem ''[[Vafþrúðnismál]]'', [[Odin|Óðinn]] engages the wise [[jötunn]] [[Vafþrúðnir]] in a game of wits. Disguised as ''[[List of names of Odin|Gagnráðr]]'', Óðinn asks Vafþrúðnir  "where men fight in courts every day." Vafþrúðnir responds that (here ''einherjar'' is translated as ''einheriar''):

{{poemquote|All the Einheriar fight in Odin's courts
every day;
they choose the slain and ride from battle;
then they sit more at peace together.<ref name=LARRINGTON46>Larrington (1999:46).</ref>}}

In the poem ''[[Grímnismál]]'', Óðinn (disguised as ''[[List of names of Odin|Grímnir]]'') tells the young [[Agnarr Geirröðsson]] that the cook [[Andhrímnir]] boils the beast [[Sæhrímnir]], which he refers to as "the best of pork", in the container [[Eldhrímnir]], yet adds that "but few know by what the einheriar are nourished."<ref name=LARRINGTON54>Larrington (1999:54).</ref> Further into ''Grímnismál'', Odin gives a list of valkyries (Skeggjöld, Skögul, Hildr, [[Þrúðr]], Hlökk, Herfjötur, Göll, Geirahöð, Randgríð, Ráðgríð, and Reginleif), and states that they bear ale to the einherjar.<ref name=LARRINGTON57>Larrington (1999:57).</ref> Towards the end of the poem, another reference to the einherjar appears when Óðinn tells the king [[Geirröd]] (unaware that the man he has been torturing is Óðinn) that Geirröd is drunk, and that Geirröd loses much when he loses his favor and the favor of "all the Einherjar."<ref name=LARRINGTON59>Larrington (1999:59).</ref>

In the poem ''[[Helgakviða Hundingsbana I]]'', the hero [[Sinfjötli]] [[flyting|flyts]] with Guðmundur. Sinfjötli accuses Guðmundur of having once been a female, including that he was "a witch, horrible, unnatural, among Odin's valkyries" and that all of the einherjar "had to fight, headstrong women, on your account".<ref name=LARRINGTON119>Larrington (1999:119)</ref>