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Sessrúmnir

Freyja's great hall in Fólkvangr, known only from Snorri's Prose Edda.

Sessrúmnir is Freyja's hall. All Snorri says is "Her hall Sessrúmnir is great and fair" Gylfaginning 24; he places it with her estate Fólkvangr, where she takes half of the battle-dead, and the poets can call her "Possessor of the Slain, of Sessrúmnir" Skáldskaparmál 20. The name, "roomy-seated", suits a hall that must seat Freyja's share of the dead, and Grímnismál speaks of her deciding "Who shall have seats in the hall" Grímnismál 14, but neither text connects the name and the seating. In the same breath Snorri adds that when Freyja goes out she drives a chariot drawn by cats Gylfaginning 24. The hall is not named anywhere in the Poetic Edda, and no story is set inside it.

In the sources

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Her hall Sessrúmnir is great and fair.
Gylfaginning 24 The one description of the hall.
Possessor of the Slain, of Sessrúmnir, of the Gib-Cats, and of Brísinga-men
Skáldskaparmál 20 Sessrúmnir among the kennings for Freyja.

Related

Freyja The Vanir goddess of love, wealth and the slain: daughter of Njörðr, owner of the necklace Brísingamen, who takes half of those who fall in battle to her hall Fólkvangr. Fólkvangr Freyja's home in the heavens, where she chooses half of those who die in battle; Odin takes the other half to Valhalla. Valhalla Valhöll Odin's vast hall of the battle-dead, roofed with shields and raftered with spears, where the einherjar feast and fight each day until they march out to meet the wolf at Ragnarök.