Norse god slain by a twig of mistletoe

Usage examples of balder.

And Balder too, the bloodless god looked down On me with frowning glances full of threats.

She wept and prayed, on good Balder calling, While down her cheeks were the tear-drops falling.

A hero glance about him he cast from time to time, And stood as Balder beauteous, as Asa-Thor sublime.

I bring not runes nor charms, but bending lowly Would learn to appease pale Balder holy.

It stood there in its grandeur on the mountain cliff, And mirrored in the ocean wave its lofty brow, While round about it, like a zone of beauteous flowers, Far stretched the dale of Balder with its sighing groves.

Yet both turned pale, the radiance of their starry crowns Was half extinguished when the pious Balder fell,-- The band was he of all the diadems of heaven.

Then holy Balder still abode in thy pure soul, Thou asa-son, thou wandering image of high heaven.

For childhood Balder is not dead, and Hela gives Again her prey us often as a child is born.

But on the green hill-slopes will Balder govern then The new-born asas, and a human race renewed.

That offering Balder asks, and I, his priest, require In token that the peaceful god thou mockest not.

Trained in the hard school of combat, Balder was used to bearing the weight of grown men in full armor upon his broad back.

Theido rode ahead on his quick, brown palfrey and Quentin, astride the mighty Balder, followed not far behind at his right shoulder.

For this run to the Wall Toli had been mounted with him on Balder, the largest of the horses.

Quentin let Balder have his head and allowed his mind to wander where it would.

Then he got up and came to Balder, patted him on the neck and reached down for a hoof.