Save Gender Masculine Usage Old Norse (Anglicized), Norse Mythology (Anglicized) Pronounced Pron. HOH-dyuhr(Norse Mythology) [key] Meaning & History From Old Norse hǫð "battle", ultimately derived from Proto-Germanic *haþuz "battle". In Norse mythology Hodur is a blind son of Odin who accidentally kills Baldr when Loki gives him an arrow made of mistletoe (the only thing Baldr can be harmed by).