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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...
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  • Dauði Baldrs (Old Norse for "Baldr's Death" or "The Death of Baldr") is the fifth studio album by the Norwegian solo act Burzum. Unlike Burzum's previous...
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  • Baldr Force is a 2D action-shooter game and eroge visual novel with action and detailed sprite characters. The game features a world in the not-so-distant...
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    Höðr (category Baldr)
    invulnerable Baldr. According to the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, the goddess Frigg, Baldr's mother, made everything in existence swear never to harm Baldr, except...
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  • Baldr Sky (バルドスカイ, Barudosukai) is a duology of Japanese adult visual novels with 2D action elements developed by Giga. The series characterizes itself...
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    underworld realm and plays a key role in the attempted resurrection of the god Baldr. Scholarly theories have been proposed about Hel's potential connections...
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    Baldrs draumar (Old Norse: 'Baldr's dreams') or Vegtamskviða is an Eddic poem which appears in the manuscript AM 748 I 4to. It describes the myth of Baldr's...
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    Norse: 'Earth'). The children of Frigg and Odin include the gleaming god Baldr. The English weekday name Friday (ultimately meaning 'Frigg's Day') bears...
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    Hermod) is a figure in Norse mythology, a son of the god Odin and brother of Baldr. Hermóðr appears distinctly in section 49 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning...
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    while alive, also visits Hel upon his horse Sleipnir. In the Prose Edda, Baldr goes to Hel on his death and subsequently Hermóðr uses Sleipnir to attempt...
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    Sleipnir's teeth and on the sledge's strap-bands." In Baldrs draumar, after the Æsir convene about the god Baldr's bad dreams, Odin places a saddle on Sleipnir...
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  • Nanna (Norse deity) (category Baldr)
    god Baldr. Accounts of Nanna vary greatly by source. In the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, Nanna is married to Baldr and...
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    Váli (category Baldr)
    Váli has numerous brothers including Thor, Baldr, and Víðarr. He was born for the sole purpose of avenging Baldr, and does this by killing Höðr, who was...
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  • Old Norse: Óðinn) in Old Norse and Old English texts. Four gods, Thor, Baldr, Víðarr and Váli, are explicitly identified as sons of Odin in the Eddic...
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    meaning "prince." Baldr is also a god in Norse mythology, associated with light, beauty, love and happiness. Balder Norse Baldr Norse [ˈbɑldr] Baldur Norse...
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    Þökk (category Baldr)
    in disguise, who refuses to weep for the slain Baldr, thus forcing Baldr to stay in Hel. After Baldr was killed, Hermóðr rode to Hel. Hel, the ruler...
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  • The Ballad of Baldr (Danish: Balladen om Balder) is the 13th volume in the Valhalla comic series. It's a retelling of the death of Baldr, drawing from...
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    way to resurrect Baldr, but will not allow Baldr and Nanna to leave until the deed is accomplished. Hel does, however, allow Baldr and Nanna to send...
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    Loki (section Baldrs draumar)
    relations with the gods end with his role in engineering the death of the god Baldr, and eventually, Odin's specially engendered son Váli binds Loki with the...
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    have a beloved son, Baldr. After a series of dreams had by Baldr of his impending death, his death is engineered by Loki, and Baldr thereafter resides...
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    receives lesser direct references in stanza 32 of the Völuspá, where the god Baldr's death is referred to as the "woe of Valhalla", and in stanzas 1 to 3 of...
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  • Mount Baldr is a mountain on Baffin Island, located 49 km (30 mi) northeast of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada. It lies in the southern Baffin Mountains...
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  • Balder, -baldur, baldar, Baldr, or Baldur in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Baldr, Balder or Baldur is a Norse god. Balder or Baldr may also refer to: Balder...
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  • of Baldr and Nanna is described. Hermóðr, described as Baldr's brother in this source, sets out to Hel on horseback to retrieve the deceased Baldr. To...
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  • location in Norse mythology which appears in the eddic poems Vafþrúðnismál and Baldrs draumar, and also in Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning. According to Snorri...
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    her second great sorrow (the first being the death of her son, the god Baldr). Odin's son Víðarr avenges his father by rending Fenrir's jaws apart and...
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    Forseti (category Baldr)
    possibly via Greek sailors purchasing amber (cf. Phol as a cognate of Baldr). The etymologist Wolfgang Laur, is highly critical, however, as the names...
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    ill-fated lovers Thesan, goddess of the dawn, associated with new life Baldr, god thought to be associated with light and/or day; is known by many other...
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    tricked Baldr's brother, the blind god Höðr into throwing mistletoe at Baldr, killing him. In the version of the story in Gesta Danorum, Baldr and Höðr...
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    names scentless false mayweed, scentless mayweed, scentless chamomile, and Baldr's brow, is the type species of Tripleurospermum. This plant is native to...
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