(Æthelweard), and that Snorri likewise equates the two when he refers to "Beldeg, whom we call Baldr" as the second son of Odin in the prologue to the Edda.

Old Norse also shows the usage of the word as an honorific in a few cases, as in baldur î brynju (Sæm. 272b) and herbaldr (Sæm. 218b), in general epithets of heroes. In continental Saxon and Anglo-Saxon tradition, the son of Woden