Walhalla, Victoria
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Walhalla is a town in Victoria, Australia, founded as a gold-mining community in late 1862, and at its peak, home to around 4,000 residents. As of 2023, the town has a population of 20 permanent resid
View of part of Walhalla, showing mainly reconstructed buildings, including the Star Hotel/Oddfellows Hall and several original structures including the band rotunda, Corner Stores and Masonic Lodge.
A reconstruction of a former shop, which now houses a small museum highlighting the Walhalla Chronicle newspaper
A general store and modern café
Walhalla township in 1910
Valhalla
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In Norse mythology, Valhalla is described as a majestic hall located in Asgard and presided over by the god Odin. There were five possible realms the soul could travel to after death. The first was Fó
Walhalla, Victoria
…the regional tourism industry. The town's name is taken from an early gold mine in the area, named for the German hall of fame, the Walhalla temple (Valhalla from Norse sagas). Walhalla is located toward the south-eastern corner of Australia, in the state of Victoria's eastern region, Gippsland, about 180…
Walhalla (1896) by Max Brückner in a scenic backdrop for Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
Three valkyries bearing ale in Valhalla (1895) by Lorenz Frølich
Hundingbane's Return to Valhalla (1912) by Ernest Wallcousins
Gylfe Stood Boldly Before Odin (1908) by George Hand Wright