Balder

Balder

Baldr / Baldur (traditional Old Norse spellings), Bældæg / Beldeg (Old English), the Dying God, Bright Eyes

Male

Hel, the Norse Underworld

The Dying God
The Bleeding God

Odin and Frigg

My full brother, Hod (with Odin's wife, Frigg)
My half-brother, Thor (with Odin's giantess mistress, Jörd)
My half-brother, Vali (with Odin's lover, Rind)
My half or full brother, Hermod (from Odin and an uncertain mother)

My son, Forseti (with Nanna)

Everybody loves me!

Loki, who masterminds my death

Married to Nanna, an Aesir goddess

"For certain is death for the born,/ And certain is birth for the dead;/ Therefore over the inevitable/ Thou shouldst not grieve."
– Bhagavad Gita

"The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself."
– Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings

"Oh hey, I've been travelin on this road too long (too long)/ Just trying to find my way back home (back home)/ But the old me is dead and gone, dead and gone."
– T.I. and Justin Timberlake, "Dead and Gone"

"when death comes/ like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,/ I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:/ what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?"
– Mary Oliver, "When Death Comes"

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
When Death Comes by Mary Oliver
Afterwards by Thomas Hardy
When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be by John Keats
Death be not proud by John Donne
Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

It's the End of the World as We Know It, R.E.M.
Dead and Gone, T.I. and Justin Timberlake

Ghost
Heart and Souls
The Sixth Sense
Bright Star
Scoop

My hall, Breidablik (the most beautiful in Asgard!)
My magnificent ship, Hringhorn

World-Enders
Dying Gods
Sons of Odin
Most Popular Gods of Asgard