Yup It is a Norse realm of the slain heros. The women are the ones that go out and escort the warriors home when slain, they are mighty warriors themselves.

Not sure that Norse cared if day or night, I suspect the night stuff has to do with our more modern beliefs and how the dead are handled at night.

Or it is just a cool word that he researched a little and made shit up that sort of went with it.

Guess it depends if you think he is a poet or not.

My opinion is he knew exactly what the place and the women were and wrote with that specifically in mind. Also warriors would have loved to mate with those women.

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