Baldr
Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #517 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.
↻ synthesized from 23 sources
When
- First attested
- 1000 BCE
- Attested period
- -1000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Appears in the 13th-century Gylfaginning.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Móðguðr, Adonis, Dumuzid, Caloian, Dodola, Yarilo, Gherman, Tezcatlipōca, Lanikuala, Kaili, Ho-Musubi, Iðunn, Hnoss, Sleipnir, Svaðilfari, Freyja, Óðr, Menglad, Lofn, Hlín, Gná, Fjörgynn, Xipe-Totec, Balder, Beldeg, Rindr, Litr, Hermod, Oðinn, Bragi, Sigmund, Sinfjötli, Vafthrúðnir, Gangleri, Völva, Skuld, Urd, Verdandi, Balderus, Viðarr, Móði, Magni, Týr, Hyrrokkin, Norns, Helheim, Loki Laufeyarson, Nanna, Forseti, Fulla, Frigg, Höðr, forest maidens, Narfi, Attis, Morena, Kagu-tsuchi, Izanagi, Izanami, Quetzalcoatl, Persephone, Njörðr, Freyr, Ægir, Skaði, Þjazi, Ištar, Hyrrokin, Mímir, Jörð, Hel, Odin
- consort of
- Nanna
- parent of
- Forseti
Mentioned by
- Attis
- Morena
- Kagu-tsuchi
- Izanagi
- Izanami
- Quetzalcoatl
- Persephone
- Njörðr
- Freyr
- Ægir
- Skaði
- Þjazi
- Ištar
- Hyrrokin
- Mímir
- Jörð
and 8 more
Sources
Source passages
“In the book Gylfaginning at the end of Chapter 49, the death 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.”
#11176 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“These examples include Baldr in Norse mythology and the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl in Aztec mythology to the Japanese Izanami. The methods of death vary. In Germanic mythology, for example, Baldr (whose account was likely first written down in the 12th century), is inadvertent”
#12056 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Some B-class bracteates showing three godly figures have been interpreted as depicting Baldr's death, the best known of these is the Fakse bracteate. Two of the figures are understood to be Baldr and Odin while both Loki and Hel have been proposed as candidates for the third figure. If it is Hel she is presumably greeting the dying Baldr as he comes to her realm.”
#12571 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“High recalls the funeral of Baldr and says that Freyja attended the funeral and there drove her cat-chariot”
#12638 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Ciubotaru and Ciubotaru describe Caloian as "perhaps Thracian", and note parallels with both Attis and Dumuzid—but also with Baldr, Xipe Totec and Yarilo; the ritual in its details, they note, closely resembles one found among the Shapsugs.”
#14075 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001