Balder

Balder is the sun-god of the Norse mythology, "the beautiful, the wise, the benignant," who is fated to die, and dies, in spite of, and to the grief of, all the gods of the pantheon, a pathetic symbol conceived in the Norse imagination of how all things in heaven, as on earth, are subject in the long-run to mortality.

According to the Scandinavian mythology, he was a son of Odin. This god of the summer sun was invulnerable to all things except mistletoe, a parasitic plant, with which he was killed by a trick played by the god Loki inducing the blind god Hödur to kill him.