Balder the Glorious

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…archetypes in one myth present the listener or reader with the two far extremes of what is to be expected and not expected in the Norse culture. In this myth Loki succeeds in killing Baldr and dies believing he has but as is often good prevails when Baldr is resurrected from the land of the dead once a new society clean of the old ones evil ways is erected out of the ashes of Ragnorak.