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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 242 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BALDER , a Scandinavian See also:

god, the son of See also:Odin or Othin. The See also:story of his See also:death is given in two widely different forms, by Saxo in his Gesta Danorum (ed. Holder, pp. 69 ff.) and in the See also:prose See also:Edda (Gylfaginning, cap. 49). See F. See also:Kauffmann, Balder: Mythus and See also:Sage (See also:Strassburg, 1902). For other See also:works, see See also:TEUTONIC PEOPLES, S 7.

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