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Known among the pre-Christian Scandinavians, and the gods themselves, as the "Shining God", Baldr was the image of perfection in the Norse religion, and the pride and joy of the Æsir (members of the principal pantheon of deities). The second son of Odin and his wife Frigg, Baldr was beloved and adored by his fellow gods—in the minds of the Æsir, he could do no wrong and no wrong could be done to him. He was the husband of Nanna and the father of Forseti, and dwelt with them in his hall of Breidablik, located in the Norse equivalent of Heaven. Nothing unclean could exist in this realm, thus the highest of all courts existed here; with the aid of
