Hodhr
Sign in to savethumb|Höðr fatally shoots Baldr, his hand guided by [[Loki; illustration by George Wright (1908)]] Höðr ( , Latin Hotherus; often anglicized as Hod, Hoder, or Hodur) is a god in Norse mythology. The blind son of Odin, he is tricked and guided by Loki into shooting a mistletoe arrow that kills the otherwise invulnerable Baldr.
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13 sectionsContents
- Name
- Attestations
- ''Prose Edda''
- ''Poetic Edda''
- Skaldic poetry
- ''Gesta Danorum''
- ''Gesta Danorum på danskæ''
- ''Hversu Noregr byggðist''
- Rydberg's theories
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- External links
thumb|Höðr fatally shoots Baldr, his hand guided by [[Loki; illustration by George Wright (1908)]] Höðr ( , Latin Hotherus; often anglicized as Hod, Hoder, or Hodur) is a god in Norse mythology. The blind son of Odin, he is tricked and guided by Loki into shooting a mistletoe arrow that kills the otherwise invulnerable Baldr.
According to the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, the goddess Frigg, Baldr's mother, made everything in existence swear never to harm Baldr, except for the mistletoe, which she found too unimportant to ask (alternatively, which she found too young to demand an oath from). The gods amused themselves by trying weapons on Baldr and seeing them fail to do any harm. Loki, the mischief-maker, upon finding out about Baldr's one weakness, made a dart from mistletoe, and helped Höðr shoot it at Baldr. In reaction to this, Odin conceived a son by Rindr, Váli, who grew to adulthood within a day and slew Höðr.