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9 Apr 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #495 – Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age
“A colorless twilight, not necessarily a place of punishment but simply the inevitable end for most, unless you end up in Valhalla, which means you’re a great warrior dying in battle.”
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- 9 Apr 2026
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…Yeah, so it’s the house of the, it’s like the house of the dead, the house of the underworld. A colorless twilight, not necessarily a place of punishment but simply the inevitable end for most, unless you end up in Valhalla, which means you’re a great warrior dying in battle. It reminds me of the Greek view of the afterlife, right? Where you essentially get amnesia and forget who you are unless someone makes a sacrifice and says your name, and only then you’ll remember it. So your- your destiny is ultimately to just become gray and fade away. So you might as well- you might as well be brave. You might as well run at that spear.…
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