Baldr then becomes practically invulnerable, and the Aesir make it their sport to try their weapons against him, inflicting no harm on him whatsoever. This annoys Loki, who assumes the shape of a woman in order to trick Freyja into telling him how Baldr can be harmed, and he is told that the mistletoe were exempted from the oath. The missile hits and kills Baldr. The Aesir decide to bring him back from Hel, where he lives after his detah. They send a messenger to Hel, who returns with the answer that Baldr may return to the living if all creatures on earth would cry over him.
Every creature does so, except for one giantess, who refuses to shed a tear for Baldr.
Loki flees, and hides in a house with doors in all directions, assuming the shape of a salmon during the days. He designs a net out of linen, but throws it into the fire when he realises that his hideout has been spotted, and takes refuge in the river in his salmon shape. The Aesir enter the house, and Kvasir, the most clever of the gods, sees the net pattern in the ashes and figures out how the net works. He designs a net of his own, and the Aesir then go fishing. Loki is captured and tied to three pointy rocks with the bowels of his son Narfi, and has to stay confined until the end of time.