Ýdalir
Talking about Ýdalir, Henry Adams Bellows says that "the wood of the yew-tree was used for bows in the North just as it was long afterwards for England". Rudolf Simek also says that "this connexion of the god with the yew-tree, of whose wood bows were made, has led to Ullr being seen as a bow-god". Andy Orchard suggests that Ýdalir is a fitting home for the archer-god, Ull. Hilda Ellis Davidson mentions that while Valhalla is well-known in Norse mythology for its association with warfare and death, the significance of other halls like Ýdalir and the goddess Freyja's afterlife realm, Fólkvangr, has been largely forgotten.