>>2473613In all seriousness, I am pretty sure this is a misunderstanding or Abrahamic propaganda.
I believe that we all (Germanics; possibly all those of sufficient Indo-European ancestry; possibly even all living beings) travel Yggdrasil's branches and are eventually reborn. For example, see Thrymskvida, knowing that Thor is your Life Force, Mjølnir is your Hearbeat, Freya is the Ovum, and so on. The mysterious stanzas of the Havamal where Odin sacrifices himself to himself also point to this, since Odin is the name for your wandering (ie. reincarnating) Spirit and Yggdrasil/Sleipnir is simply Death/Funeral (and secondarily, the Cosmos).
I think our ancestors believed that those of us who die fighting or in the course of some other worthy cause (such as childbirth) deservedly get special treatment in the temporary afterlives of Valhal (Place of the Chosen Slain) and Folkvangr (Place of the People) whereas the rest of us just kinda zone out in Hel (Covered/Unseen Place) until we come back here.
But I'm a Nordic animist, not a Norse polytheist, so your mileage may vary.