Odin did not eat, for wine was to him both food and drink.
“Then said Gangleri: ‘Has Odin the same fare as the Einherjar?’ Hár: ‘The food which stands on his board he gives to his two wolves, Geri and Freki;[[379]] he needs no food, for wine is both drink and food to him.
“King Eirek (blood-axe of Northumberland), son of Harald Fairhair, one summer made warfare west of Scotland, and in Ireland, and in Bretland (Wales), and did not stop before he came south to England, and ravaged there as in other places, because King Adalstein (Ethelstan) was then dead, and his son Jatmund ruled England” (Fagrskinna, c. 27).
“Eirik had a host so large that five kings followed him. As he was a man of great bravery and a victorious man he trusted so well himself and his host that he went far inland with warfare. Then King Olaf, King Jatmund’s tax-king,[[380]] came against him; they fought, and Eirik was overpowered by the land-host, and fell there with all his men. Arnkel and Erlend, the sons of Torfeinar (jarl in the Orkneys), fell there with him” (Fagrskinna, c. 28).
After the death of Eirik, Gunnhild (his wife) caused a poem to be made on him, how Odin welcomed him, which gives us an idea of the belief of people about the Valhalla.
What dreams are those?
Methought a little before day
That I made Valhöll ready
For slain people;
I bid the valkyrjas carry wine,