Valhallaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Valhall

語源

From New Latin, from Old Norse Valhǫll (from valr (“dead warriors”) +‎ hǫll (“hall”)).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /vælˈhælə/
• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /vælˈhælə/, /vɑlˈhɑlə/
• 韻: -ælə, -ɑːlə

固有名詞

Valhalla

1. (Norse mythology) The home of half of all warriors who died gloriously in battle as well as many of the Æsir.
   • 1791 May 1, “Moore's Inquiry into the Subject of Suicide”, in Monthly Review‎, London, pages 24–25:

     [S]uch souls as were detruded from the body by any violent method went strait to Valhalla. (Latin original: Nostratibus sane hoc erat infallibiliter persuasum, animas, non vulgares, neque senio morbove, sec cruenta morte & vi corporibus exeuntes, recta ad Vahlallam ferri)

   • 1996, Carolyne Larrington, The Poetic Edda, Folio Society, published 2016, page xvii:

     In some poems they are envisaged as divine figures, women who serve mead to the dead warriors in Valhall, and who fulfil the will of Odin in overseeing battle and making sure that victory is awarded to the right man.

   • 2020 November 15, Shannon Liao, “Next-gen consoles are here. So are the games”, in CNN Business‎:

     So it’s hardly a surprise that the “Call of Duty” and “Assassin’s Creed” franchises put out new releases this week. “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla,” about Vikings and Norse mythology, debuted on November 10, the same day as the Xbox Series X. Three days later, “Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War,” set in the 1980s, was released.

2. A hamlet and census-designated place in Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York, United States.
   • 2015 February 4, Ray Sanchez and Ben Brumfield, “6 killed when train hits SUV in New York”, in CNN Business‎:

     Investigators are not sure why the woman’s Mercedes SUV stopped on the tracks Tuesday night in Valhalla, about 30 miles north of New York City, National Transportation Safety Board Member Robert Sumwalt said Wednesday.

派生語

• Valhallan

関連する語

• Valgrind

名詞

Valhalla (plural Valhallas)

1. (by extension) An abode of the gods or afterlife in general.
   • 1915 April, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “The Return of Song”, in Fifty-one Tales, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, →OCLC:

     “The swans are singing again,” said to one another the gods. And looking downwards, for my dreams had taken me to some fair and far Valhalla, I saw below me an iridescent bubble not greatly larger than a star shine beautifully but faintly, and up and up from it looking larger and larger came a flock of white, innumerable swans, singing and singing and singing, till it seemed as though even the gods were wild ships swimming in music.

   • 1959, Tom Lehrer, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”:

     You will all go directly to your respective Valhallas / Go directly, do not pass 'GO', do not collect two hundred dollars

   • 1964, Jan Morris, “Envoi: State of Being”, in Spain, Faber and Faber, published 2008, →ISBN:

     Like Philip's, Franco's autarchy was shrouded in religiosity—not Christianity alone, but also a sort of dim Wagnerian vision of hero-gods and Valhallas, a gloomy level of devotion on which paganism, Catholicism and the apotheosis of the State could conveniently be mingled.