Myself
“Rindr will bear Váli
in western halls;
that son of Óðinn
will kill when one night old—
he will not wash hand,
nor comb head,
before he bears to the pyre
Baldr’s adversary”
“There formed from that stem,
which was slender-seeming,
a shaft of anguish, perilous:
Hǫðr started shooting.
A brother of Baldr
was born quickly:
he started—Óðinn’s son—
slaying, at one night old.”
Mythverse
Birthed for the sole purpose of killing Höðr as revenge for Höðr’s accidental murder of his half-brother, Baldr, he grew to full adulthood within one day of his birth and has remained there ever since. Soon after he fulfilled his purpose, something he feels guilty about to this day, he moved down to Midgard and started his own family, determined to stay out of Asgardian affairs.
