valhalla-worthy volvos?
I recently spotted this in traffic: With the Volvo being an iconic Swedish car (though the manufacturer was once owned by Ford and was later sold to China's Geely automotive company), it sort-of makes humorously contextual sense that their vehicles might end up in Valhalla . If we talk about the idea of swords , axes , and ships having names and therefore some personal agency in terms of performing a function and being judged to earn a reputation of worth based on that performance, then Norse Cosmology might extend to them a battle death or Odinic pass into the Hall of the Slain, though in the Lore there isn't really a stand-alone object example of this outside of being in tow as someone's grave goods . So what we do have archaeologically are mound burials that are ship, wood cart , and/or horse inclusive, and this makes for the implied idea that you get to ride your Midgardian transportation of choice into the afterlife for use as valid. Nowadays more realistically a ...