Death of a Splendid Son – text

Følgende er manuskriptet til et foredrag holdt på Himmelbjerggården.

Welcome, all of you, to this second part of my mythopoetic investigation of the Odinic pattern of initiation. Last time we began with an interpretive retelling of Odin’s conquest of the drink of initiation – the mead of poetry. This time, our center of attention will be quite different – not an account of victory and conquest, but a tale of darkness, defilement and destruction. For it is the story of the tragic murder of Baldr.

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