How many doors does Valhalla have?

Valhalla is said to have 540 doors. This number comes from Grímnismál, a Poetic Edda poem in which Odin describes his hall and declares that 800 Einherjar can pass through one door when they march to battle the wolf at Ragnarök.

The figure is part of an intentionally enormous, legendary image of Valhalla. The hall belongs to Odin and receives warriors chosen from those who die in battle. Its imagined architecture includes spear shafts for rafters, shields for roofing, armor-covered benches, and a wolf hanging before the western doors.

The main gate is called Valgrind, described as an ancient sacred gate whose locking method is known to very few. The poem’s wording distinguishes the total number of doors—540—from the much larger number of warriors who can move through each opening. That distinction explains why 800 is a tempting but incorrect answer.

The account is mythic poetry rather than an architectural report. Grímnismál survives in the medieval Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from older traditional material, so the number belongs to the story’s symbolic scale.