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...things would weep for him. All did, except a giantess, who appears to be none other than Loki in disguise. There is another version of this story, to which allusion is made in a west Norse poem ( Baldrs draumar). According to this Loki does not seem to be directly responsible for Balder’s death but Höd alone. Balder’s name occurs rarely in place-names, and it does not appear that his...
Some important mythological lays appear in other manuscripts. Baldrs draumar (“Balder’s Dreams”) describes how the god Balder dreamed that his life was threatened and how his father, Odin, rode to the grave of a prophet to force her to reveal the fate in store for Balder.