Einheriar Entertainment

Then spoke Gangleri: ‘There is a very large number of people in
Val-hall. I declare by my salvation that Odin is a very great lord
when he commands such a great troop. But what entertainment
do the Einheriar have when they are not drinking?’

High said: ‘Each day after they have got dressed they put on
war-gear and go out into the courtyard and fight each other and
they fall each upon the other. This is their sport. And when
dinner-time approaches they ride back to Val-hall and sit down to
drink, as it says here:

All Einheriar in Odin’s courts fight one another each day.
They select their victims and from battle ride, sit the more at
peace together.

But it is true what you said: a mighty one is Odin. There is much
evidence that points to this.


- Prose Edda, Gylfaginning