BAL´DER, the god of light, peace, and day, was the young and beautiful son of Odin and Frigga. His palace, Briedablik ("wide-shining"), stood in the Milky Way. He was slain by Höder, the blind old god of darkness and night, but was restored to life at the general request of the gods.--_Scandinavian Mythology_. Balder the beautiful, God of the summer sun. Longfellow, _Tegnier's Death_. (Sydney Dobell has a poem entitled _Balder_, published in 1854.) BAL´DERSTONE (_Caleb_), the favorite old butler of the master of Ravenswood, at Wolf's Crag Tower. Being told to provide supper for the laird of Bucklaw, he pretended that there were fat capon and good store in plenty, but all he could produce was "the hinder end of a mutton ham that had been three times on the table already, and the heel of a ewe-milk kebbuck [_cheese_]" (ch. vii.).--Sir W. Scott, _Bride of Lammermoor_ (time, William III.). BALDRICK, an ancestor of the lady Eveline Berenger "the betrothed." He was murdered, and lady Eveline assured Rose Flammock that she had seen his ghost frowning at her.--Sir W. Scott, _The Betrothed_ (time, Henry II.). BAL´DRINGHAM (_The lady Ermengarde of_), great-aunt of lady Eveline Berenger "the betrothed."--Sir W. Scott, _The Betrothed_ (time, Henry II.). BALDWIN, the youngest and comeliest of Charlemagne's paladins, nephew of sir Roland. _Baldwin_, the restless and ambitious duke of Bologna, leader of 1200 horse in the allied Christian army. He was Godfrey's brother, and very like him, but not so tall.--Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_ (1575). ¤¤¤ He is introduced by sir Walter Scott in _Count Robert of Paris_. _Baldwin_. So the Ass is called in the beast-epic entitled _Reynard the Fox_ (the word means "bold friend"). In pt. iii. he is called "Dr." Baldwin (1498). _Bald´win_, tutor of Rollo ("the bloody brother") and Otto, dukes of Normandy, and sons of Sophia. Baldwin was put to death by Rollo, because Hamond slew Gisbert the chancellor with an axe and not with a sword. Rollo said that Baldwin deserved death "for teaching Hamond no better."--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Bloody Brother_ (1639).