Breiðablik

In Norse mythology, Breiðablik (Broad-gleaming) is the home of Baldr. It is briefly described in Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning as one of the halls of Ásgarðr:

"Then there is also in that place the abode called Breidablik, and there is not in heaven a fairer dwelling."

Later in the work, when Snorri describes Baldr, he gives a longer description, citing Grímnismál, though he does not name the poem:

"He dwells in the place called Breidablik, which is in heaven; in that place may nothing unclean be, even as is said here:

Breidablik 't is called, | where Baldr has

A hall made for himself:

In that land | where I know lie

Fewest baneful runes."

Breiðablik is not otherwise mentioned in the Eddic sources.

Sources

• Bellows, Henry Adams (transl.) (1936). The Poetic Edda. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist (transl.) (1916). The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation.

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