12/28/2025
🌞 Baldr- The Shining God🌞
“Baldr, the good, is best of the Æsir;
of him all speak well.”
— Gylfaginning, ch. 22
Baldr (Old Norse Baldr, possibly meaning bold or bright) is the most beloved of the Æsir, a god of radiant beauty, peace, truth, and tragic fate. His presence in Norse mythology is quiet yet world-shaking, for his death marks the beginning of the unraveling of the cosmos itself.
🌼 Who Is Baldr?
Baldr is the son of Óðinn and F***g, brother to Höðr, and husband to Nanna. He dwells in Breiðablik, “the broad gleaming place,” a hall so pure that nothing unclean may enter it. This alone marks Baldr as something rare in the Norse myths: a being of harmony in a cosmos built on struggle.
He is described as fair of face, radiant in presence, gentle in speech, and just in judgment. Baldr is a symbol of order, hope, and moral clarity.
🜂 The Dream of Death & F***g’s Oath
Baldr begins to dream of his own death, ominous visions that trouble the gods. In response, F***g travels through the Nine Worlds, extracting oaths from all things ; stone, metal, disease, beast, and blade that they will never harm her son.
Only one thing is overlooked: mistletoe, deemed too young and harmless to swear an oath.
💀Baldr’s Death
The gods, believing Baldr invulnerable, make sport of throwing weapons at him. All fail to harm him until Loki, in disguise, places a mistletoe dart in the hands of Baldr’s blind brother Höðr and guides his aim.
The dart strikes true.
Baldr falls dead.
Silence overtakes the gods.
This is not merely a death: it is the first crack in the cosmic order, the true beginning of Ragnarök.
🌑 Descent to Hel & the Failure of Redemption
Baldr is sent to Helheim, ruled by Hel, daughter of Loki. The gods attempt to ransom him, and Hel agrees, if all things in existence weep for Baldr.
All do.
All except Þökk, a giantess (widely accepted as Loki in disguise), who refuses.
Baldr remains in Hel until after Ragnarök.
🌅 Baldr After Ragnarök
After the destruction and rebirth of the world, Baldr returns. He emerges from Hel to rule the renewed cosmos alongside his brother Höðr: reconciled, whole, and reborn.
🫴Baldr thus becomes a god of resurrection, renewal, and the restored world.
🔮 Modern Devotion⤵️
Baldr is invoked for:
• Healing & peace work
• Justice and ethical clarity
• Inner child healing & grief rites
• Light magic and spiritual rebirth
• Rituals of hope after trauma
Baldr’s energy is not forceful, it is steady, luminous, and unwavering.
He teaches that gentleness is not weakness, and that even death is not the end of light.
🕯️ Offerings⤵️
•White candles •Mistletoe (symbolically, not harvested) •Spring flowers •Honey
•Milk •Mead •Sun-charged water
🌀Sacred symbols: •Light •Purity Rebirth •The returning sun
⏰️Timing: •Spring rites •Grief anniversaries •Peace workings •Post-shadow work
🌞 Baldr’s Lesson
Baldr reminds us that innocence can exist even in brutal worlds and that its loss carries weight. His myth teaches that hope is not destroyed by death, only delayed.
🫴Light always returns.☀️
🏞The Norse Witch🏞
📚 References
• Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson- Gylfaginning, ch. 22–49
• Poetic Edda- Völuspá, Baldrs Draumar
• Simek, Rudolf. Dictionary of Northern Mythology
• Lindow, John. Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs
• Orchard, Andy. Cassell’s Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend
