Thaukt will weep Baldur with dry tears

Hermod returned to Asgard and told all the gods. The new gods sent messengers everywhere, asking everyone to cry for Baldur's return. People, animals, earth, stones, metal... all cry as if they were brought from a cold place to a hot land. On the way back, the messengers met an old witch who called herself Thaukt sitting in a cave, and begged her to weep for Baldur. But she replied, “Thaukt will weep Baldur with dry tears. Let Hela keep him!”

Everyone suspects that this witch is Loki

who always disturbs the gods. So Baldur was not allowed to return to Asgard.

All of Baldur's brothers and gods huddled together to skull viking carry Baldur's ship, the world's largest Hringhorni, down to the shore. The god's corpse will be placed on a pyre set up in the middle of the ship. But by that time, all the gods gathered and could not push the ship into the water.

Odin said: “Even the giants mourned Baldur. I heard their wailing thunder. So please the gods put an end to all enmity with that human race and ask them to help us push this boat out to sea.”

An emissary was sent to Jotunheim, and one of the strongest giants in the country named Hyrrockin volunteered to help immediately. She rides a giant wolf, the reins are a snake. When she got there, she quickly jumped down and grabbed the bow of the ship and pulled it out to sea. The ship was so heavy that it suddenly turned and drifted, the bottom of the ship was violently on the rocks, the fire spread on all sides, and when the ship was in the water, it drifted out to sea, causing the gods to panic thinking that this time the ship was lost. Fortunately, Hyrrockin waded quickly into the sea, reaching out and grabbing the stern of the ship. Then Baldur's body was put on a ship and placed on a pyre of beautiful silk and woolen rolls of many colors glittering with golden thread, woven by skillful dwarves. Nanna was placed by the gods to lie down beside her husband. Even Baldur's battlehorse was strung on it with a silver saddle studded with diamonds so that it would lead its master on the path to Hela's dark world. God Thor pulled out his hammer, a spark from the blade shone down to burn the precious silk; For a moment the fire was so high that it illuminated the radiant faces of Baldur and Nanna. Finally, Odin put his gift on the pyre. It was the Draupnir gold bracelet, eight of which fell every nine nights, just as pure gold, beautiful and bright.”

God Odin and the queen Frigga

When he put down the Draupnir, Odin said, “Keep this treasure and bring it down to Hela's world. You will never forget the loved ones you left behind in the Asgardian heaven.”

Then Hyrrockin pushed the ship. The ship glittered with countless treasures under the glorious blazing fire, shining out to sea, illuminating the whole sky. On the shoreline were the gods: the god Odin and the queen Frigga; Valkyrio with two ravens; Frey with a chariot pulled by a yellow-maned wild boar; god Heimdall riding the horse Gulltopp; Goddess Freya with a cat-drawn carriage. After the gods came the dwarves and the Giants of the Frost. All of them forgot about the old feuds and feuds, only to see everyone's eyes filled with tears as they watched the train carrying Baldur's body slowly disappearing below the horizon and the water meeting. Before long, the shadow of the train completely disappeared, leaving only a pink area that rose to the top of the sky.

It was truly a heavenly sunset. The beautiful young Baldur died, the Asgardian heaven was engulfed in the endless darkness of eternal grief and hatred. 

NOTE

In the myths of the world, there are tattoo style clothing few stories describing death as both glorious and fierce as the death story of the god Baldur above. That splendor and fierceness reflected too faithfully the proud and arrogant lifestyle of the Nordic people (the homeland of the Viking pirates went down in history).

From a symbolic point of view, the above story may be similar to the Greek story of Persephone (symbol of spring): during the four-month period Persephone went down to the underworld with her husband, on earth it was winter with snow covered with dead grass and dead trees. lui. But it is also possible that the above story is to symbolize the scene where both gods and people and all things are destroyed when the future ice age comes.