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Thursday, December 12, 2013

Did you ever wonder who named our streets?

If you take Candlewick Drive toward the north end of the lake and go a block north you will come across Valhalla. I can not imagine why they would choose this name, which is linked to Vikings that died in battle and went to Valhalla. See the description below. What this has to do with Candlewick Lake I have no clue.  Ken

Valhalla, Hall of the Slain, in Norse mythology is the hall presided over by Odin. This vast hall has five hundred and forty doors. The rafters are spears, the hall is roofed with shields and breast-plates litter the benches. A wolf guards the western door and an eagle hovers over it. It is here that the Valkyries, Odin's messengers and spirits of war, bring half of the heroes that died on the battle fields (the rest go to Freya's hall Folkvang). These heroes, the Einherjar, are prepared in Valhalla for the oncoming battle of Ragnarok. When the battle commences, eight hundred warriors will march shoulder to shoulder out of each door.