Baldr

Baldr is a Norse god associated with light, beauty, and goodness. His death, brought about by Loki through the blind god Höðr, is an omen of Ragnarök.

Baldr's Dreams: A poem in which Odin seeks the meaning of Baldr’s ominous dreams from a dead seeress. The dreams announce Baldr’s approaching death and prompt the gods to investigate.
Frigg: A Norse goddess associated with marriage, foresight, and the protection of her family. Frigg extracts promises from nearly everything, hoping to make Baldr invulnerable.
Poetic Edda: A collection of Old Norse mythological and heroic poems preserved chiefly in the medieval Codex Regius. Several poems preserve material about Baldr and the world’s fate.
Norse mythology: The religious and mythic traditions of pre-Christian Scandinavia and related Germanic cultures. Baldr’s fate belongs to a wider cycle of gods, kinship, and cosmic change.
Loki's Taunt: A mythological poem in which Loki insults the gods at a feast in Ægir’s hall. Loki reveals that he helped bring about Baldr’s death during the feast.
Loki: A shape-shifting figure in Norse mythology who alternates between aiding and harming the gods. Loki discovers the mistletoe exception and engineers the fatal throw.
Prose Edda: A medieval Icelandic handbook of poetics and mythology written by Snorri Sturluson. Snorri supplies the fullest surviving narrative of Baldr’s death.
Resurrection: The return of a dead being to life after death. Baldr’s hoped-for return is blocked until after Ragnarök.
Gylfaginning: A section of Snorri Sturluson’s Prose Edda recounting Norse myths through a dialogue about the gods. Its account gives the best-known version of the mistletoe plot and failed resurrection.
Ragnarök: The prophesied destruction and renewal of the world in Norse mythology. Baldr’s death is one of the events that foreshadows this final conflict.

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