Midsummer sacred to, [87];
a tree-spirit or deity of vegetation, [88] sq.;
interpreted as a mistletoe-bearing oak, [93] sq.;
his invulnerability, [94];
why Balder was thought to shine, [293]
—— and the mistletoe, i. 101 sq., ii. [76] sqq., [302];
his life or death in the mistletoe, [279], [283];
perhaps a real man deified, [314] sq.
——, the myth of, i. 101 sqq.;
reproduced in the Midsummer festival of Scandinavia, ii. [87];