After Baldr was killed,
Hermóðr rode to Hel.
Hel, the ruler of
the realm of the same name, agreed that Baldr should go back to the living if all things in the world wept for him. So the
Æsir sent messengers all over the world, and all wept for him, but:
"Then, when the messengers went home, having well wrought their errand, they found, in a certain cave, where a giantess sat: she called herself Thǫkk. They prayed her to weep Baldr out of Hel; she answered: