| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Noun | 1. (Norse mythology) a blind god; misled by Loki, he kills his brother Balder by throwing a shaft of mistletoe.[Wordnet]. | |
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Date "Hodur" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
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| Literature | 1: When Höder rules the earth." 2: Hodur Balder's twin brother; the God of Darkness; the blind god who killed Balder, at the instigation of Loki, with an arrow made of mistletoe. Hödur typifies night, as Balder typifies day. (Scandinavian mythology.) 3: Frithiof-Saga: Balder's Bale-Fire. 4: But soon its splendour sinketh down 5: "And Balder's pile of the glowing sun 6: A symbol true blazed forth; 7: When H�der rules the earth." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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