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Norse Mythology - The Death of Baldur

Meanwhile in the living world, the gods turned Baldur’s ship into a pyre for his funeral they found that the ship was stuck in the sand and themselves unable to move it. So they called upon the strongest being in the cosmos, a giantess by the name of Hyrrokkin. She arrived riding a wolf and using poisonous snakes as reins. with tons of might she pushed the ship off of the sand.

Baldur was carried onto the ship and his wife, Nanna was overcome with so much grief that she died on the spot. His horse was led onto the pyre with him and Odin placed his ring Draupnir into the pyre.

All sorts of beings attended from all the nine worlds; Gods, giants, elves, dwarves, valkyries,etc. Together they stood and mourned as Baldur’s ship was sent out to sea.

Meanwhile Hermod rode for nine nights and finally got to the underworld. He talked to Hel who had Baldur in a smaller but just as nice thrown right beside her. He asked he if Baldur could come back and said that everyone was mourning for Baldur. She said that she would let him back into the world of the living if everyone wished that he would come back.

So the gods went to all the cosmos and gathered that everybody except a giantess wanted Baldur to come back and that giantess was actually Loki in disguise.

So Baldur remained in the world of the dead until the Ragnarok and then he came back to the lands and shared his happiness and light once again.

THE END

BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://norse-mythology.org/tales/the-death-of-baldur/

http://thenorsegods.com/

http://fanzone50.com/Tales/Nordic-Baldur.html

Patrick

what kind of story is this?

-This story is primarily a lesson teacher

-Don't underestimate anything

-Don't be careless

Ben

What kind of story is it?

This story teaches you that if you are trying to protect something, you should never dismiss anything as being no threatening. In this particular myth, Frigga made the decision to not make mistletoe swear the oath not to hurt Baldur, making it Baldur’s Achilles heel. She said it was to small and gentle to hurt him or anything else. That turned out to be Baldur’s fatal flaw, because out of treachery, the mistletoe was fashioned into the spear that ultimately destroyed Baldur. The gods ended up regretting their carelessness, as Baldur was not to return, thanks to their ignorance and dismissal. The moral of the story is don’t be to careful, and teaches you anything can hurt you and threaten your life.

Jonah

what lesson does this story teach us?

I think that this story shows that you can never be too careful and that even if something appears harmless, it can still be very harmful.

why we choose this culture

The Death of Balder

Baldur was the god of light. He was the son of Frigg, and Odin. Frigg was a sorceress and god of women and marriage. Odin was the chief of the gods.

Baldur used to bring generosity, joy and courage to the people around him and everybody enjoyed his company. Everything was fine until Baldur started having dreams of bad things happening to him. Odin and Frigg got very worried. Odin, wasting no time, diguised himself and went to the underworld and awoke a seeress who he knew to be rather wise. When he got there he noticed that some sort of a feast was being prepared. He asked the Seeress who it was being prepared for and she told him that it was for Baldur before figuring out his disguise.

Odin returned to Asgard (home of the gods), and shared the news that he heard in the underworld.

So Frigg, knowing that everybody liked Baldur, made everybody promise to never do anything to harm him.

After she had all of the oaths from all the cosmos, the gods made a sport out of this by throwing sticks, stones and anything they could at Baldur, just to watch them bounce off of him. Everybody was happy that the wonderful shining god was safe and they even had themselves a sport from it to, but one person wasn’t very happy about this.

Loki, the god of mischief and trickery, was very jealous of Baldur and he wanted Baldur dead. So, Loki having the same power as most gods disguised himself as an old woman and went to talk to Frigg and asked: <<”Did all things swear oaths to spare Baldur from harm?”>>. She responded:

we chose Norse mythology because teo members of our group (Patrick and Jonah) are danish and we wanted to chose a topic that we could relate to. Also because Norse mythology is not as popular as some other forms like greek mythology.

what is the story about?

This story is about a god named Baldur. He was the god of light and everybody enjoyed his company. It's about how somebody finds a loophole and out of jealousy kills Baldur. It explains how much everybody from all the cosmos enjoyed and loved him. And that everybody attended his funeral and he was probably the most loved being that ever existed.

<<”Oh yes, everything except the mistletoe. But the mistletoe is so small and innocent a thing that I felt it superfluous to ask it for an oath. What harm could it do to my son?”>>. Loki after hearing this went out to find the mistletoe plant.

He finds the plant and fashioned it into and spear like stick. He then went straight to where the gods were playing their new favourite game.

He went to the blind god Hod and said exactly this: <<“You must feel quite left out, having to sit back here away from the merriment, not being given a chance to show Baldur the honor of proving his invincibility.”>> The blind god responded yes. <<“Here, I will point your hand in the direction where Baldur stands, and you throw this branch at him.”>>

So, with Loki’s guidance, Hod threw the mistletoe at Baldur and it pierced his heart and killed him right on the spot. The gods stood there terrified and stunned as they knew that this was the first sign of the <<Ragnarok>>, the downfall and death of the gods and the very cosmos that they maintained.

Frigg asked the gods if anyone would like to journey to the underworld and offer Hel, god of the underworld . Hermod, a brother of Baldur offered to take this journey. Odin instructed his magical horse, Sleipnir to take him to the underworld.

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