 The goddess Freyja and her afterlife field Fólkvangr , where she receives half of the slain , has been theorized as connected to the valkyries . Britt @-@ Mari Näsström points out the description in Gylfaginning where it is said of Freyja " whenever she rides into battle she takes half of the slain " , and interprets Fólkvangr as " the field of the Warriors " . Näsström notes that , just like Odin , Freyja receives slain heroes who have died on the battlefield , and that her house is <unk> ( which she translates as " filled with many seats " ) , a dwelling that Näsström posits likely fills the same function as Valhalla . Näsström comments that " still , we must ask why there are two heroic paradises in the Old Norse view of afterlife . It might possibly be a consequence of different forms of initiation of warriors , where one part seemed to have belonged to Óðinn and the other to Freyja . These examples indicate that Freyja was a war @-@ goddess , and she even appears as a valkyrie , literally ' the one who chooses the slain ' . " 
