Prose Edda — Old Norse facing a living language
Þá mælti Gangleri: "Þetta eru undarlig tíðendi, er nú sagðir þú. Geysimikit hús mun Valhöll vera. Allþröngt mun þar oft vera fyrir durum." Þá svarar Hárr: "Hví spyrr þú eigi þess, hversu margar dyrr eru á höllinni eða hversu stórar? Ef þú heyrir þat sagt, þá muntu segja, at hitt er undarligt, ef eigi má ganga út ok inn hverr, er vill.
Then Gangleri said: "This is astonishing news you're telling me. Valhalla must be an enormous house — it must often be very crowded at the doors." High answered: "Why don't you ask how many doors the hall has, and how large they are? Once you hear that, you'll say it would be strange if anyone who wanted to couldn't walk freely in and out.
En þat er með sönnu at segja, at eigi er þröngra at skipa hana en ganga í hana. Hér máttu heyra í Grímnismálum: 49. Fimm hundrað dura ok of fjórum tögum, svá hygg ek á Valhöllu vera; átta hundruð Einherja ganga senn ór einum durum þá er þeir fara með vitni at vega."
But I can tell you truly: it's no more crowded to fill the hall than it is to walk into it. Here you can hear it in Grimnismal: Five hundred doors / and forty more, / I believe, are in Valhalla; / eight hundred warriors / go out through one door at once / when they march to fight the wolf."