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                Christmas is coming, I can tell. Have you seen the mistletoe yet? If not, you will, especially when you are a student in Novum ;) Ok, but why did I mention the mistletoe? I just thought that you probably don’t know a Norse Myth about a mistletoe and why people kiss under it.

                 Odin, who I’m sure most of you are familiar with, had a son - Baldur. He was the most beloved by other gods so much that they wanted to protect him from the danger, especially if there were signs that he might get killed soon. In that case his mother, Frigg ask whole nature to make a promise that they would never hurt her beloved son. Some time later, at the gathering all creatures wanted Baldur to be tested. It was more a fun than a test. And arrow, stones, flame, ice were all hurled at him. Nothing worked obviously. But there was a god, a  really naughty one called Loki. He tricked Frigg, who had forgotten to ask mistletoe to make a promise of not hurting his son, because it was a tiny, overlooked plant that seemed to be totally harmless. Then, Loki took a part of mistletoe and made and arrow of it. Next, he gave it to Hödur, Baldur’s blind brother, to shoot Baldur with it. Loki helped him aim his arrow, and, after letting it go, it hurt poor Baldur to death. It broke Frigg’s heart that she decreed that mistletoe would never again be used as a weapon and that she would place a kiss on anyone who passed under it. That’s why mistletoe is put above in a well-seen place. So that it would never be overlooked.

                 So don’t miss the mistletoe, it could be dangerous! ;)

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