Balder, “The Glorious” Section I. Summary In the chapter entitled “Baldr and Loki” in R.I. Page’s book, Norse Myths, he takes a close look at the character Balder and how he relates to two very different stories of how he was killed. First is the Snorri version of the Death of Balder and second being the Saxo version. Page states that Baldr “is the best of all gods, fair in complexion and nature, …showed first 75 words of 594 total…

…showed last 75 words of 594 total…archetypes in one myth present the listener or reader with the two far extremes of what is to be expected and not expected in the Norse culture. In this myth Loki succeeds in killing Baldr and dies believing he has but as is often good prevails when Baldr is resurrected from the land of the dead once a new society clean of the old ones evil ways is erected out of the ashes of Ragnorak.