Huffman High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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Huffman High School Birmingham, Alabama Volume I 1968

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LEGEND OF VALHALLA Among the silver and golden mythical palaces which the Norse Vikings believed awaited them in Eternity, one was most beautiful, most coveted. It was in this palace that their supreme God and protector. Odin, reigned. The Vikings were an adventurous and courageous trfbe, sworn always to fight with the forces of good and against the force of evil. They believed that the supreme triumph -- and. indeed, the only honorable death -- was to die in battle amid the brave ... to die in battle against evil ... to die in valor. For those who had fought — and died -- for him. Odin prepared a great feast in his palace in the sky. where the slain heroes could reign with him throughout eternity. If a soldier were to be slain at night, a maiden would descend upon a white horse to carry the hero to the palace of Odin along the path of the Milky Way. If the brave one died in the light of day, the heavens cried, and the rains fell, and the maiden descended along the rainbow’s arch of colors. Each Viking warrior held a hope in his heart that someday he might be chosen to reign with Odin: for whether he died in the ebony of night, or the blue of the morning’s dawn, there awaited a path --a path leading to the most beautiful, treasured resting place in the heavens, a path leading to the golden halls of Valhalla ... By Charlotte Wells