Vingolf. Literally, "The Abode of Friends;" the name for the place in which the heavenly goddesses assemble.
What rites appease thee, Father of the Slain?
Father of the Slain, Valfader.—Odin.
Her sisters tremble at the Urdar spring.
"Her sisters tremble," &c.,—that is, the other two Fates (the Present and the Past) tremble at the Well of Life.
To all the valiant Gladsheim's Halls unclose.
Gladsheim, Heaven: Walhalla ("the Hall of the Chosen") did not exclude brave foes who fell in battle.