Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Balder Dead (version 2)
    Balder Dead (version 2)
    Balder Dead (version 2)
    Audiobook1 hour

    Balder Dead (version 2)

    Written by Matthew Arnold

    Narrated by Thomas A. Copeland

    ()

    About this audiobook

    The poem begins with the beloved god Balder, thought to be invulnerable, dead at the hands of the inoffensive blind god Hoder, in a game. Loki, whose deceit brought about this catastrophe, is promptly punished with exile, and Odin, Balder's father, sponsors a heroic quest to rescue his son from the land of the dead. This desperate venture unexpectedly meets with partial success, a conditional agreement to release Balder if everyone in the land of the living mourns his death. And even though over every hope hangs the threat of the ultimate end of the reign of the Norse gods, the mother of the gods points out that "much must yet be tried which shall but fail." - Summary by T. A. Copeland
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Balder Dead (version 2)
    Author

    Matthew Arnold

    Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) was an English poet and critic. Educated at Oxford, Arnold is primarily remembered for his verse, although his critical works are equally noteworthy.

    More audiobooks from Matthew Arnold

    Related to Balder Dead (version 2)

    Related audiobooks

    Short Stories For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Herne: The Hidden Hero

      Mar 11, 2021

      Herne: The Hidden Hero
      4 min read

    • Article

      Fact Attack!

      Mar 25, 2020

      Leiber’s father (also Fritz) was a successful actor, most notably playing Franz Lizst in Universal’s Phantom Of The Opera (1943). The book was expanded from The Pale Brown Thing, first published in the Jan/Feb 1977 editions of Fantasy And Science Fic

      1 min read

    • Article

      Balder And The Mistletoe

      Dec 1, 2021

      Balder And The Mistletoe
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Wood Bee Queen

      May 19, 2021

      RELEASED 10 JUNE 432 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Edward Cox Publisher Gollancz An abundance of ideas compete for space in Edward Cox’s crowded fantasy adventure. The story is set across two parallel versions of the same town – on Earth, Strange Gr

      1 min read

    • Article

      Matt Knott’s Choice Of Favourite Memoirs

      Feb 15, 2022

      Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood. One of the most eccentric and hilarious books about family I have ever read, Lockwood clearly adores her parents as much as they confound her. Heartburn by Nora Ephron. Technically a novel, this is a thinly veiled ac

      1 min read

    • Article

      Hope Springs

      Feb 22, 2021

      The Thin Places in the title of Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s intense memoir-cum-nature book are “places where a veil is lifted away and light streams in”. They are pools of stillness in a “broken, burning and bleeding world”. They are remote havens where t

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Ash House

      Sep 8, 2021

      RELEASED OUT NOW! 348 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author Angharad Walker Publisher Chicken House Stories that engage both children and adults are fairly common in dramatic form, but rarer in fiction, where the language can be trickier to naviga

      1 min read

    • Article

      Wordsworth

      Dec 13, 2020

      Readers were asked to select a character from a popular Christmas tale and compose a limerick about them. Carole Hay of Ōrewa: When Herod, the King of the Jews, Met the wise men, he near blew a fuse. A baby, ’tis said, Turned the world on its head, B

      1 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Dec 1, 2020

      This debut romcom is an uplifting, funny read. After getting stuck at the top of the London Eye with his girlfriend, who has just turned down his marriage proposal, Josh decides to make future decisions based on flipping a coin. What can go wrong, ri

      1 min read

    • Article

      Heaven Only Knows

      Mar 13, 2022

      Heaven Only Knows
      2 min read

    • Article

      Vikings: Valhalla

      Dec 29, 2022

      Vikings: Valhalla
      1 min read

    • Article

      A Melancholy Tightrope Act: The Beautiful Spectacle of Sabrina Orah Mark’s ‘Wild Milk’

      Oct 15, 2018

      The stories in Sabrina Orah Mark’s newest collection, Wild Milk, are as careful, diamond-sharp, and surprising as the narrative poems of Elizabeth Bishop. Dorothy, a publishing project, which is committed to “works of fiction or near fiction or about

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Long Way Home | Books

      Oct 26, 2019

      "When two persons wish to come together, there is always a way." The final proclamation of Irshad Abdulkadir's Prodigal, captures a leitmotif of the whole novel, that of a voyage full of hope and courage, which nevertheless (in the silence that follo

      1 min read

    • Article

      Helter-skelter

      Sep 24, 2020

      Helter-skelter
      1 min read

    • Article

      Wildland

      Aug 31, 2021

      Wildland
      2 min read

    • Article

      Nonfiction Picks

      Mar 31, 2020

      • By Dinah Lenney • Bloomsbury, 192 pages, $13.45 Your morning cup of joe is more complicated than it looks. Just ask Dinah Lenney, author of Coffee, the latest in Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series—which asks writers to ruminate on ordinary things i

      2 min read

    • Article

      Bone Harvest

      Dec 2, 2020

      RELEASED OUT NOW! 495 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author James Brogden Publisher Titan Books An ancient religion that worships a terrifying pig god, a World War One deserter and a sleepy village allotment which hides a dark secret form the back

      1 min read

    • Article

      Saving Freyfaxi

      Jan 1, 2024

      Saving Freyfaxi
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Kindness of Strangers

      Apr 27, 2020

      The Kindness of Strangers
      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Balder Dead (version 2)

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words