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Encyclopedia > Rota (Valkyrie)

Rota was one of the Valkyries. Together with Gunn and Skuld she attended the battle fields and chose those who were to be slain and taken to Valhalla.



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Rota (318 words)
The rota was a cylinder, open on one side, that was built inside a wall of a monastery ; it was used for exchanging mail and food with cloistered clergy, being their only communication with the world.
The Sacra Rota is a tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church.
In medieval music, a rota is a name for a type of round, specifically as practiced in England in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Rota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (311 words)
The rota was a cylinder, open on one side, that was built inside a wall of a monastery; it was used for exchanging mail and food with cloistered clergy, being their only communication with the world.
The Sacra Rota is a tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Rota is the southernmost of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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