According to the eddic poem Grimnismal, the abode of the goddess Freya, who rides to battle from there and is allotted half the slain. The 13th century Icelander Snorri Sturluson adds the detail that her hall in Folkvang is called Sessrumnir and is ‘large and fair’.

Odin’s vision of the dwelling places of the gods in Grimnismal includes Folkvang, in stanza 14:

Folkvang is the ninth, and there Freyja rules
The choice of seats in the hall.
Half the dead she chooses each day,
And Odin has half.

According to Snorri’s Gylfaginning, the hall itself at Folkvang is called Sessrumnir (Seat-roomy), but this information is not found elsewhere. If we understand Folk- as “army,” Folkvang begins to look like some kind of alternative to Valholl, where the einherjar dwell until Ragnarok. Freyja too has an association with warriors who, like the einherjar, fight each day and feast each night, in that she presides over the Hjadningavig (an eternal combat of warriors). In that case, however, the end comes not with Ragnarok but with the intervention of a Christian.