A ninth-century Swedish "picture stone" depicts two Vikings battling with swords in Valhalla, the warriors' heaven.
Others had thought the lights were the glinting weapons of fallen Viking warriors ascending to heaven.
Benjamin F. Butler, who would later serve as governor of Massachusetts, eulogized Jackson by evoking, as so many did, the Battle of New Orleans, during which, he said, the general behaved as "some heaven-appointed and heaven-assisted warrior".
Because of its mournful songs, the Ojibwa considered the loon an omen of death, and the Cree saw it as the spirit of a warrior denied entry to heaven.
· View the work online · Archive Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) paintod, to borrow Satan's description of his court of downcast angels in Paradise Lost, "Princes, Potentates,/ Warriors, the Flow'r of Heaven".
A warrior hero fated for a heaven filled with waiting virgins.
Directorial credits include Run Lola Run, Heaven, The Princess and the Warrior, and Perfume.
But the warriors who crossed the heavens in the retinue of the sun were thought to come back to earth after four years as hummingbirds.
Ridley Scott's three movies, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and most recently The Kingdom of Heaven explore the morality and identity of warriors.
The angel Michael was known as God's warrior, a mighty angel often portrayed in armor who cast Satan from the heavens.
