@Andse Last time I checked, when Baldr became Hel's consort and divorced his original wife by, well, dying, it's said that he became apathetic and, in a word, "zombielike". As someone has stated in another comment, Hel was reserved to those that didn't fit in any other categories (they said "oathbreakers" and "cowards", but the definition of "coward" includes anyone dedicated to battle that didn't die as a result of battle, as well as anyone not aligned with other gods with afterlifes).
Taking Greek mythology as a fellow Indoeuropean mythology, most likely any deity important enough had a place to keep souls (in Greek mythology there is the Hades for regular people, Poseidon's palace for those that drown or receive, intentionally or not, a sea burial, the Olympus for those that catch Zeus' eye [*wink**wink*] and the Elyseum for heroes = people who are in favor of other deities and not in disfavor of more important ones).
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@Andse Last time I checked, when Baldr became Hel's consort and divorced his original wife by, well, dying, it's said that he became apathetic and, in a word, "zombielike". As someone has stated in another comment, Hel was reserved to those that didn't fit in any other categories (they said "oathbreakers" and "cowards", but the definition of "coward" includes anyone dedicated to battle that didn't die as a result of battle, as well as anyone not aligned with other gods with afterlifes).
Taking Greek mythology as a fellow Indoeuropean mythology, most likely any deity important enough had a place to keep souls (in Greek mythology there is the Hades for regular people, Poseidon's palace for those that drown or receive, intentionally or not, a sea burial, the Olympus for those that catch Zeus' eye [*wink**wink*] and the Elyseum for heroes = people who are in favor of other deities and not in disfavor of more important ones).