Aban Yasht and Rig Veda

[Guest guest]

First of all: I deeply regret my first impulsive answer to Arun Gupta

concerning this subject.

 

I should have know better, particularly because I came to remember Nordic

mythology a few hours later, after I dashed off my speculative answer to

Mr. Gupta.

 

According to Snorri Sturluson's Younger Edda, this is how Valhalla looked:

 

"Five hundred doors

and forty as well

I think there must be in Valhalla;

Eight hundred warriors ("einherjar") walk

together out through one door

when they go to kill the wolf."

 

"Hundred" means a "great hundred", in other words 120, so the total of

doors in Valhalla is 640. Although there were halls in Viking Scandinavia,

there are no remains of buildings in the Nordic countries or in their

surroundings that are remotely similar to this. Valhalla is a mythical

building, just as the one we just discussed in connection with the Aban

Yasht and the Rig Veda.

 

Once again, sorry for being such an idiot!

 

Lars Martin Fosse

 

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[Guest guest]

Since Valhalla had spears for rafters, and shields for the roof,

it is clearly without parallel in the natural world, even to

its authors.

 

Are there any elements of structure that would not be used in

a real building mentioned in the Rig Veda or Avesta ?

 

-Arun Gupta