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Baldr dead by Eckersberg
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Title: Balders død
Français : La mort de Baldr
English: Baldr's Death
Country of origin: Denmark
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Français : Baldr est couché au premier plan. Il vient d’être frappé par le projectile de Höd. Le frère aveugle de Baldr est debout à gauche, tendant les bras. Tout à gauche, Loki essaie de dissimuler son sourire. Odin est assis au milieu des Ases. Thor est à sa gauche. À l’arrière-plan, on peut apercevoir Yggdrasil et les trois Nornes.
English: Baldr is lying in the foreground. He has just been hit by Höd’s missile. Höd, Baldr’s blind brother, is standing on the left, stretching his arms out. On the very left, Loki tries to conceal his smile. Odin is sitting in the middle of the Æsir. Thor is on his left. Yggdrasil and the three Norns can be seen in the background.
Yggdrasil (from Old Norse Yggdrasill) is an immense and central sacred tree in Norse cosmology. Around it exists all else, including the Nine Worlds. Yggdrasil is attested in the Poetic Edda compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and in the Prose Edda compiled in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In both sources, Yggdrasil is an immense ash tree that is central to the cosmos and considered very holy. The gods go to Yggdrasil daily to assemble at their traditional governing assemblies. The branches of Yggdrasil extend far into the heavens, and the tree is supported by three roots that extend far away into other locations; one to the well Urðarbrunnr in the heavens, one to the spring Hvergelmir, and another to the well Mímisbrunnr. Creatures live within Yggdrasil, including the dragon Níðhöggr, an unnamed eagle, and the stags Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and Duraþrór. Scholars generally consider Hoddmímis holt, Mímameiðr, and Læraðr to be other names for the tree. The tree is an example of sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology, and scholars in the field of Germanic philology have long discussed its implications.
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