sentences:  Hermóðr begged Hel to release Baldr, citing the great weeping for Baldr among the Æsir.Thereupon Hel announced that Baldr would only be released if all things, dead and alive, wept for him.Baldr gave Hermóðr the ring Draupnir which had been burned with him on his pyre, to take back to Odin.