Editing Fólkvangr (section)

===Implications===
[[John Lindow]] says that if the ''Fólk-'' element of ''Fólkvangr'' is to be understood as "army", then Fólkvangr appears as an alternative to Valhalla. Lindow adds that, like Odin, Freyja has an association with warriors in that she presides over the eternal combat of [[Hjaðningavíg]].<ref name=LINDOW118/>

[[Rudolf Simek]] theorizes that the name ''Fólkvangr'' is "surely not much older than ''Grímnismál'' itself", and adds that the ''Gylfaginning'' description keeps close to the ''Grímnismál'' description, yet that the ''Gylfaginning'' descriptions adds that Sessrúmnir is located within Fólkvangr.<ref name=SIMEK87>Simek (2007:87).</ref> According to [[Hilda Ellis Davidson]], Valhalla "is well known because it plays so large a part in images of warfare and death," yet the significance of other halls in Norse mythology such as [[Ýdalir]], where the god [[Ullr]] dwells, and Freyja's Fólkvangr have been lost.<ref name=DAVIDSON199367>Davidson (1993:67).</ref>

Britt-Mari Näsström places emphasis on that ''Gylfaginning'' relates that "whenever she rides into battle she takes half of the slain," and interprets ''Fólkvangr'' as "the field of the Warriors." Näsström comments that:
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Freyja receives the slain heroes of the battlefield quite respectfully as Óðinn does. Her house is called Sessrumnir, 'filled with many seats', and it probably fills the same function as Valhöll, 'the hall of the slain', where the warriors eat and drink beer after the fighting. Still, we must ask why there are two heroic paradises in the Old Norse View of afterlife. It might possibly be a consequence of different forms of initiation of warriors, where one part seemed to have belonged to Óðinn and the other to Freyja. These examples indicate that Freyja was a war-goddess, and she even appears as a valkyrie, literally 'the one who chooses the slain'.<ref name="NÄSSTRÖM61"/>
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Siegfried Andres Dobat comments that "in her mythological role as the chooser of half the fallen warriors for her death realm Fólkvangr, the goddess Freyja, however, emerges as the mythological role model for the Valkyrjar and the [[dís]]ir."<ref name=DOBAT186>Dobat (2006:186).</ref>