Valhöll is described with its 540 doors. The einherjar fight each day and are healed by evening, when they eat the flesh of the boar Sæhrímnir and drink mead from the udder of the goat Heiðrún.
Fimm hundruð dyra ok enn fjórum tigum svá hygg ek at Valhöll vera. Átta hundruð einherja ganga þar á einn dyrr þá er þeir fara at vitni at berjast við úlfinn. Einherjar berjast hvern dag ok fellast, en rísa þeir ok fara til drykkju ok sitja heilir saman.
Five hundred doors and forty more, such is Valhöll as I believe it to be. Eight hundred einherjar go out through one door at the same time when they go to fight the wolf. The einherjar fight each day and fall, but they rise and go to the feast and sit whole together.
Geitr sú er stendr í Valhöll ok bítr af Læraðs limum, en ór spenum hennar rennr mjöðr, sá er aldrei þrýtr. Svín þat er Sæhrímnir heitir er soðit hvern dag ok heilt at kveldi.
The goat that stands in Valhöll and bites the branches of Læraðr, from her udder flows mead that never runs out. The swine called Sæhrímnir is boiled every day and is whole again by evening.
Eddic quotations
Sæhrímnir soðinn er bezt, en þat vita fáir hvat einherjar eta; Geri ok Freki seðr Gautatýr, en vín eitt Váfuðr lifir.
Sæhrímnir is best boiled, but few know what the einherjar eat; Geri and Freki Gautatýr satisfies, but on wine alone Váfuðr lives.