Mystletainn:
Underneath the
mistletoe
The Mystletainn
is the spear which killed Baldr. When
Baldr dreamed of how his own death,
his mother Frigg sought of way to
protect her son and made every object vow upon this earth that they would not
harm Baldr.
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| The Mystletainn, taken from the Ragnarok MMORPG |
However she overlooked the lowly mistletoe believing it to
be harmless, she didn’t opt the mistletoe to swear. When Loki learned of this he had the mistletoe fashioned into a spear,
in some versions an arrow. He then gave the Mystletainn to Höðr the blind god, the brother of Baldr. Which led to the events of the
death of Baldr.
It is rather
odd how the Mystletainn is often
portrayed as a sword than the spear or arrow it was mentioned to be in the lore.
The reason for this might be from the Icelandic saga of Hrómundr Gripsson.
Mystletainn belong a man
named Þráinn, having slain
four hundred and twenty men with the sword.
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