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Baldr (Old Norse also Balder, Baldur) is a god in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology , he is a son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg , and has numerous brothers , such as Thor and Váli .
In Eckersberg's painting, Baldr is seen lying in the foreground. He has just been hit by Höd's mistletoe arrow. Höd, Baldr's blind brother, is standing on the left, stretching his arms out. On the very left, Loki tries to conceal his smile. Odin is sitting in the middle of the Æsir. Thor with Mjölnir sits on Odin's left (the viewer's right).
Odin's last words to Baldr (1908) by W.G. Collingwood (1854–1932). A dying god, or departure of the gods, is a motif in mythology in which one or more gods (of a pantheon) die, are destroyed, or depart permanently from their place on Earth to elsewhere.
As to Höðr, outside of the single statement in the kennings, Snorri makes no mention that Höðr is Baldr's brother or Odin's son, though one might expect that to be emphasized. In Saxo's version of the death of Baldr, Höðr, whom Saxo calls Høtherus, is a mortal and in no way related to Saxo's demi-god Balderus.
It describes the myth of Baldr's death consistently with Gylfaginning. Bellows suggest that the poem was composed in the mid 10th century as well as the possibility that the author also composed Völuspá or at least drew from it, pointing at the similarity of stanza 11 in Baldrs draumar and stanzas 32-33 in Völuspá . [ 3 ]
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Hermóðr begged Hel to release Baldr, citing the great weeping for Baldr among the Æsir. Thereupon Hel announced that Baldr would only be released if all things, dead and alive, wept for him. Baldr gave Hermóðr the ring Draupnir which had been burned with him on his pyre, to take back to Odin.
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