Originally posted by Preacher:

Yeah, reading this necro'd thread and the "no other NPC's in vikingr afterlife" is lame. Look at all of the abandoned farms and buildings.

I don't know, who 'knows' what the Norse afterlife really looks like? Right???

Maybe for some, the represented afterlife just has reminders of what the 'real' world WAS like, what was left behind. So abandoned villages etc. and no contact with others except those 'battle friends' that you can coop with, over and over, until you leave Valheim and Valhalla is reached. Much like purgatory, and everyone's purgatory is different.

The lore can be explained however you like, you just have to stop thinking logically. Just because there are abandoned villages doesn't mean there should be villagers as well.
It's not Skyrim.