Balder was fatally wounded, but Odin's power prevented him from actually dying and kept him in a state resembling suspended animation. Seeking to bring about Ragnarok, Loki tricked the blind god Hoder into firing an arrow tipped with mistletoe wood at Balder. Loki, the god of mischief, learned of the prophecies tying Balder's death to the coming of Ragnarok, and also learned of Balder's vulnerability to mistletoe. It is more likely that his vulnerability to mistletoe is a necessary side effect of the spell making him invulnerable to harm from other things. This omission was probably not due to forgetfulness on Frigga's part, since she has not mad him invulnerable to harm from mistletoe since his vulnerability to it became known. (The legends describe her as extracting promises from all of these things not to harm Balder, as if they were all sentient and capable of speech.) The sole exception was mistletoe. Frigga cast spells that would protect Balder from harm by any living or inanimate thing while he was in the Asgardian dimension. Balder has been unsuccessfully sought as a lover by the sorceress Karnilla, the Norn Queen.īecause of the prophecies that Balder's death would help trigger the coming of Ragnarok, the destruction of Asgard and its inhabitants, Odin, ruler of Asgard, commanded his wife Frigga to make Balder invulnerable to harm. Due to his many heroic deeds over the ages, Balder has long been regarded as Asgard's noblest god and its greatest warrior next to the thunder god Thor, who has long been Balder's closes friend.
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