"Behold ! Valhalla proudly shrouds, Her towers in the ambient clouds: Five hundred portals grace the side, With forty more unfolding wide. Thro' ev'ry gate in war array, With banners streaming to the day, Eight hundred warriors passage find, When for martial deeds inclin'd."
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The Song of Grimnir, as translated by , Icelandic Poetry, or the Edda of Saemund (1797), p. 58.
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