It was speculated that Hrist would be the type to kill her own einherjar (at least by me...), and we see some evidence of that in the new game - not enough to say definitively that she does this all the time, of course.

Are you referring to a certain "manly" someone? I should really see that scene again in the dragon temple. This is one thought that never occurred to me-- how the valkyries recruit their Einherjer. Interesting.

I should have thought about this whenever I recruited people in VP:2, where she calls upon spirits via an object. It didn't even hit me that she didn't recruit them the same way Lenneth did. :P