In Norse mythology, Freyja receives half of the warriors who die in battle.
The poem Grímnismál states that Freyja chooses half of those slain, while Odin receives the other half. Freyja’s chosen dead go to her meadow or field, Fólkvangr, where her hall is called Sessrúmnir. This tradition shows that battle-death is not exclusively connected with Odin or Valhalla.
The division is one of the clearest surviving statements about destinations for warriors killed in combat. However, the sources do not provide a detailed system explaining how every individual warrior was assigned to one deity rather than the other.
Modern retellings sometimes treat Valhalla as the universal destination for heroic warriors. The older mythology is more varied: Freyja has an equally important claim over a portion of the battle-dead, and other dead people are connected with Hel or different destinations.