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Baldr. "Each arrow overshot his head" (1902) by Elmer Boyd Smith. Baldr (Old Norse also Balder, Baldur) is a god in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, he is a son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, and has numerous brothers, such as Thor and Váli. In wider Germanic mythology, the god was known in Old English as Bældæġ, and in Old ...
Baldur Benedikt von Schirach (9 May 1907 – 8 August 1974) was a German politician who served as head of the Hitler Youth from 1931 to 1940. From 1940 to 1945, he was the Gauleiter (district leader) and Reichsstatthalter (Reich governor) of Vienna. A member of the Nazi Party from the age of 18, Schirach was named national youth leader of the ...
Höðr. Höðr (Old Norse: Hǫðr [ˈhɔðz̠] ⓘ, Latin Hotherus; [1] often anglicized as Hod, Hoder, or Hodur) [a] is a god in Norse mythology. The blind son of Odin, he is tricked and guided by Loki into shooting a mistletoe arrow which was to slay the otherwise invulnerable Baldr. According to the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, the ...
The Death of Balder. The Death of Balder (Danish: Balders Død) is an 1817 oil-on-canvas painting by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, depicting the well-known, eponymous legend from Norse mythology in which Balder is killed by a mistletoe arrow. Eckersberg's admission painting for admission into the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts ' Academy ...
The Schirach family or Šěrach is a German noble family of Sorbian (i.e. West Slavic) origin. Many family members were noted as theologians, lawyers, historians, writers and artists from the 17th century, and several family members have also been noted for their efforts to preserve the Sorbian language. The family was raised to the hereditary ...
Baldrs draumar. "Odin rides to Hel" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood. Baldrs draumar (Old Norse: ' Baldr 's dreams') [1][2] or Vegtamskviða is an Eddic poem which appears in the manuscript AM 748 I 4to. It describes the myth of Baldr 's death consistently with Gylfaginning.
Single-player, multiplayer. Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn is a role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Interplay Entertainment. It is the sequel to 1998's Baldur's Gate and was released for Windows in September 2000. Following its predecessor, the game takes place in the Forgotten Realms, a fantasy campaign setting, and ...
Black Isle Studios is a division of the developer and publisher Interplay Entertainment formed in 1996 that develops role-playing video games. It has published several games from other developers. Black Isle is based in Irvine, California. [1] The idea for the division's name came from the Black Isle in Scotland – founder Feargus Urquhart 's ...