Death of Baldr Myth (34)
Death of Baldr Myth
A myth concerning an accidental fratricide. It sometimes includes Loki as an instigator who dupes Baldr's brother, Höðr, into the act and actually guides his hand. In the Prose Edda, Snorri says that Höðr was blind.
A myth concerning an accidental fratricide. It sometimes includes Loki as an instigator who dupes Baldr's brother, Höðr, into the act and actually guides his hand. In the Prose Edda, Snorri says that Höðr was blind.
Death of Baldr Myth is referenced in:
Digital image of the illustration on page 283 of Karl
Gjellerup's 1895 edition of the Poetic Edda, entitled Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange.
Digital image of the illustration on p. 370 in Thomas Bartholin's Antiquitatum danicarum de causis contemptae a
Danis adhuc gentilibus mortis libri tres
.
Digital image of the illustration on page 82 Mary H.
Foster and Mabel
H.
Cummings's childrens book Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse
Mythology.
Digital image of the illustration on page 232 of Abbie F
Brown's childrens book In the Days of Giants.
Digital image of the illustration on page 256 of Abbie F
Brown's childrens book In the Days of Giants.
Digital image of the illustration on page 238 of the 1908 edition of
Olive
Bray's dual language edition The Elder or Poetic Edda: Commonly Known As
Sæmund's Edda.
Digital image of the illustration on page 239 of the 1908 edition of
Olive
Bray's dual language edition The Elder or Poetic Edda: Commonly Known As
Sæmund's Edda.
Digital image of C.
E.Brock's
illustration on page [144] in the 1930 edition of Annie
Keary's childrens book The Heroes of Asgard.
Digital image of C.
E.Brock's
illustration on page 155 in the 1930 edition of Annie
Keary's childrens book The Heroes of Asgard.
Digital image of C.
E.Brock's
illustration on page 160 in the 1930 edition of Annie
Keary's childrens book The Heroes of Asgard.
Digital image of C.
E.Brock's
illustration on page 164 in the 1930 edition of Annie
Keary's childrens book The Heroes of Asgard.
Digital image of C.
E.Brock's
illustration on page 170 in the 1930 edition of Annie
Keary's childrens book The Heroes of Asgard.
Digital image of C.
E.Brock's
illustration on page 203 in the 1930 edition of Annie
Keary's childrens book The Heroes of Asgard.
Digital image of C.
E.Brock's
illustration on page 203 in the 1930 edition of Annie
Keary's childrens book The Heroes of Asgard.
Digital image of the frontispiece illustration of Katherine F.
Boult's childrens book Heroes of the Norselands.
Digital image of the illustration on page 292 of the 1908 edition of
Annie
Keary's childrens book The Heroes of Asgard.
Digital image of Arthur
Rackham's illustration on page 137 of the
1907 edition of The Land of
Enchantment.