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The people struggled to survive, producing food in extensive vats of nutrient-rich slime. As the threat of starvation seemed to be passing, a new threat appeared in [[M30]]{{Fn|5}}. A fleet of damaged [[Ork]] space ships had been cast through the [[warp]] to the ice world. The Orks descended on the planet and proceeded to fight the Valhallans for the food they had stored. They held out bravely for a long time in their sub-glacial cities but were pushed back to the food vats. The battle looked hopeless for the humans. The defenders held out long enough for Valhallan engineers to use their ice-boring machines to bore through the ground beneath the Orks. The tide was turned as the fiery ice-melting machines ran amok among the Orks, burning and terrifying the Orks. The Valhallans took the offensive and cut down any Ork which had not been burned or melted.{{cite this}}
Ever since then, the Valhallans, particularly their sons and daughters enlisted in the [[Imperial Guard]], have hated the Orks more than any other [[xenos]] race, and become especially adept at fighting them on other worlds throughout the Imperium. The planet's population continues to live in vast subterranean cities, since the sub-freezing temperatures on the surface make it uninhabitable. Valhallans are renowned for their stoic and determined natures.{{cite this}}
==Valhallan Dialect of [[Low Gothic]]==
*{{Endn|4}}: [[Caves of Ice (Novel)]] by [[Sandy Mitchell]], Chapter One
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Codex: Cityfight]], pg. 31
*{{Endn|6}}: [[The Last Son of Dorn (Novel)]] Chapter 1
