Editing Baldrs draumar (section)

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{{For|the Norwegian ballet|Baldurs draumar}}
[[Image:Odin rides to Hel.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Odin rides to Hel" (1908) by [[W. G. Collingwood]]]]
'''''Baldrs draumar''''' (Old Norse: '[[Baldr]]'s dreams'){{Sfn|Orchard|1997|p=13}}{{Sfn|Lindow|2002|p=70}} or '''''Vegtamskviða''''' is an [[Poetic Edda|Eddic poem]] which appears in the manuscript [[AM 748 I 4to]]. It describes the myth of [[Baldr]]'s death consistently with ''[[Gylfaginning]]''. Bellows suggest that the poem was composed in the mid 10th century as well as the possibility that the author also composed ''[[Völuspá]]'' or at least drew from it, pointing at the similarity of stanza 11 in ''Baldrs draumar'' and stanzas 32-33 in ''Völuspá''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe13.htm |title = The Poetic Edda: Baldrs Draumar}}</ref> Additionally, the 14th stanza of ''[[Þrymskviða]]'' is almost identical to Baldrs draumar's 1st stanza. Only in the last sentence do the two diverge from one another. Guðni argued that Þrymskviða was the younger poem of the two and it had received the stanza from Baldrs draumar. <ref>{{cite web |url=https://wevikings.com/library/baldrs-draumar-eng |title = Baldrs Draumar}}</ref>