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Baldr (Old Norse: ᛒᛅᛚᛏᚱ [ˈbɑldz̠]; anglicised Balder, Icelandic: Baldur) is the god of light, joy, purity, and the summer sun in Norse mythology, and a son of the god Óðinn and the goddess Frigg. He is the father of Forseti, and he has numerous brothers, such as Þórr and Váli. In the 12th century, Danish accounts by Saxo Grammaticus and other Danish Latin chroniclers recorded a euhemerised account of his story. Compiled in Iceland in the 13th century, but based on much older Old Norse poetry, th
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