In wider Germanic mythology, the god was known in Old English as Bældæġ, and in Old High German as Balder, all ultimately stemming from the Proto-Germanic theonym * Balðraz ('hero' or 'prince').ĭuring the 12th century, Danish accounts by Saxo Grammaticus and other Danish Latin chroniclers recorded a euhemerized account of his story. In Norse mythology, Baldr ( Old Norse: ) is a son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, and has numerous brothers, such as Thor and Váli. "Each arrow overshot his head" (1902) by Elmer Boyd Smith.īaldr (also Balder, Baldur) is a god in Germanic mythology.
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