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href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleypnir" title="Sleypnir – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Sleypnir" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BF%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%80" title="Слейпнір – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Слейпнір" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BF%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%80" title="Слейпнир – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Слейпнир" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esleipni" title="Esleipni – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Esleipni" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipner" title="Sleipner – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Sleipner" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%BB%CE%AC%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%BD%CE%B9%CF%81" title="Σλάιπνιρ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Σλάιπνιρ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%BE%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B1" title="اسلیپنیر – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="اسلیپنیر" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8A%AC%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%94%84%EB%8B%88%EB%A5%B4" title="슬레이프니르 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="슬레이프니르" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A8" title="סלייפניר – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="סלייפניר" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%98%E1%83%9E%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98" title="სლეიპნირი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="სლეიპნირი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnirs" title="Sleipnirs – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Sleipnirs" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnis" title="Sleipnis – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Sleipnis" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szleipnir" title="Szleipnir – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Szleipnir" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%98%D0%BF%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%80" title="Слејпнир – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Слејпнир" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds-nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Low Saxon" lang="nds-NL" hreflang="nds-NL" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Nedersaksies" data-language-local-name="Low Saxon" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nedersaksies</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%97%E3%83%8B%E3%83%AB" title="スレイプニル – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="スレイプニル" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipner" title="Sleipner – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Sleipner" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipne" title="Sleipne – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Sleipne" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleypnir" title="Sleypnir – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Sleypnir" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BF%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%80" title="Слейпнир – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Слейпнир" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%98%D0%BF%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%80" title="Слејпнир – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Слејпнир" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Sleipnir" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Sleipnir" 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Sleipnir is attested in the <i><a href="/wiki/Poetic_Edda" title="Poetic Edda">Poetic Edda</a></i>, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the <i><a href="/wiki/Prose_Edda" title="Prose Edda">Prose Edda</a></i>, written in the 13th century by <a href="/wiki/Snorri_Sturluson" title="Snorri Sturluson">Snorri Sturluson</a>. In both sources, Sleipnir is Odin's steed, is the child of <a href="/wiki/Loki" title="Loki">Loki</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sva%C3%B0ilfari" title="Svaðilfari">Svaðilfari</a>, is described as the best of all horses, and is sometimes ridden to the location of <a href="/wiki/Hel_(location)" title="Hel (location)">Hel</a>. The <i>Prose Edda</i> contains extended information regarding the circumstances of Sleipnir's birth, and details that he is grey in color. </p><p>Sleipnir is also mentioned in a riddle found in the 13th century <a href="/wiki/Legendary_saga" title="Legendary saga">legendary saga</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Hervarar_saga_ok_Hei%C3%B0reks" title="Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks">Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks</a></i>, in the 13th-century legendary saga <i><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6lsunga_saga" title="Völsunga saga">Völsunga saga</a></i> as the ancestor of the horse <a href="/wiki/Grani" title="Grani">Grani</a>, and book I of <i><a href="/wiki/Gesta_Danorum" title="Gesta Danorum">Gesta Danorum</a></i>, written in the 12th century by <a href="/wiki/Saxo_Grammaticus" title="Saxo Grammaticus">Saxo Grammaticus</a>, contains an episode considered by many scholars to involve Sleipnir. Sleipnir is generally accepted as depicted on two 8th century <a href="/wiki/Gotland" title="Gotland">Gotlandic</a> <a href="/wiki/Image_stones" class="mw-redirect" title="Image stones">image stones</a>: the <a href="/wiki/Tj%C3%A4ngvide_image_stone" title="Tjängvide image stone">Tjängvide image stone</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Ardre_image_stones" title="Ardre image stones">Ardre VIII image stone</a>. </p><p>Scholarly theories have been proposed regarding Sleipnir's potential connection to <a href="/wiki/Shamanism" title="Shamanism">shamanic</a> practices among the <a href="/wiki/Norse_paganism" class="mw-redirect" title="Norse paganism">Norse pagans</a>. In modern times, Sleipnir appears in <a href="/wiki/Scandinavian_folklore" class="mw-redirect" title="Scandinavian folklore">Icelandic folklore</a> as the creator of <a href="/wiki/%C3%81sbyrgi" title="Ásbyrgi">Ásbyrgi</a>, in works of art, literature, software, and in the names of ships. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Attestations">Attestations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleipnir&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Attestations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poetic_Edda"><i>Poetic Edda</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleipnir&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Poetic Edda"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Odin_and_Sleipnir_-_John_Bauer.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Odin_and_Sleipnir_-_John_Bauer.jpg/220px-Odin_and_Sleipnir_-_John_Bauer.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="248" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Odin_and_Sleipnir_-_John_Bauer.jpg/330px-Odin_and_Sleipnir_-_John_Bauer.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Odin_and_Sleipnir_-_John_Bauer.jpg/440px-Odin_and_Sleipnir_-_John_Bauer.jpg 2x" data-file-width="746" data-file-height="840" /></a><figcaption>"Odin and Sleipnir" (1911) by <a href="/wiki/John_Bauer_(illustrator)" title="John Bauer (illustrator)">John Bauer</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the <i>Poetic Edda</i>, Sleipnir appears or is mentioned in the poems <i><a href="/wiki/Gr%C3%ADmnism%C3%A1l" title="Grímnismál">Grímnismál</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Sigrdr%C3%ADfum%C3%A1l" title="Sigrdrífumál">Sigrdrífumál</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Baldrs_draumar" title="Baldrs draumar">Baldrs draumar</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Hyndlulj%C3%B3%C3%B0" title="Hyndluljóð">Hyndluljóð</a></i>. In <i>Grímnismál</i>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_names_of_Odin" title="List of names of Odin">Grimnir</a> (Odin in disguise and not yet having revealed his identity) tells the boy Agnar in verse that Sleipnir is the best of horses ("Odin is the best of the <a href="/wiki/%C3%86sir" title="Æsir">Æsir</a>, Sleipnir of horses").<sup id="cite_ref-LARRINGTON58_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LARRINGTON58-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>Sigrdrífumál</i>, the <a href="/wiki/Valkyrie" title="Valkyrie">valkyrie</a> <a href="/wiki/Sigrdr%C3%ADfa" class="mw-redirect" title="Sigrdrífa">Sigrdrífa</a> tells the hero <a href="/wiki/Sigurd" title="Sigurd">Sigurðr</a> that <a href="/wiki/Runic_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Runic alphabet">runes</a> should be cut "on Sleipnir's teeth and on the sledge's strap-bands."<sup id="cite_ref-LARRINGTON169_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LARRINGTON169-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/Baldrs_draumar" title="Baldrs draumar">Baldrs draumar</a></i>, after the Æsir convene about the god <a href="/wiki/Baldr" title="Baldr">Baldr</a>'s bad dreams, Odin places a <a href="/wiki/Saddle" title="Saddle">saddle</a> on Sleipnir and the two proceed to the location of <a href="/wiki/Hel_(location)" title="Hel (location)">Hel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LARRINGTON243_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LARRINGTON243-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6lusp%C3%A1_hin_skamma" title="Völuspá hin skamma">Völuspá hin skamma</a></i> section of <i>Hyndluljóð</i> says that Loki produced "<a href="/wiki/Fenrir" title="Fenrir">the wolf</a>" with <a href="/wiki/Angrbo%C3%B0a" title="Angrboða">Angrboða</a>, produced Sleipnir with <a href="/wiki/Sva%C3%B0ilfari" title="Svaðilfari">Svaðilfari</a>, and thirdly "one monster that was thought the most baleful, who was descended from <a href="/wiki/B%C3%BDleistr" title="Býleistr">Býleistr</a>'s brother."<sup id="cite_ref-LARRINGTON258_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LARRINGTON258-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prose_Edda"><i>Prose Edda</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleipnir&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Prose Edda"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Odin_riding_Sleipnir.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Odin_riding_Sleipnir.jpg/220px-Odin_riding_Sleipnir.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="284" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Odin_riding_Sleipnir.jpg/330px-Odin_riding_Sleipnir.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Odin_riding_Sleipnir.jpg/440px-Odin_riding_Sleipnir.jpg 2x" data-file-width="592" data-file-height="764" /></a><figcaption>An illustration of Odin riding Sleipnir from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Treated_NKS_hermodr.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Treated_NKS_hermodr.jpg/220px-Treated_NKS_hermodr.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="282" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Treated_NKS_hermodr.jpg/330px-Treated_NKS_hermodr.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Treated_NKS_hermodr.jpg/440px-Treated_NKS_hermodr.jpg 2x" data-file-width="604" data-file-height="774" /></a><figcaption>An 18th century <i>Prose Edda</i> manuscript illustration featuring Hermóðr upon Sleipnir (left), Baldr (upper right), and Hel (lower right).</figcaption></figure> <p>In the <i>Prose Edda</i> book <i><a href="/wiki/Gylfaginning" title="Gylfaginning">Gylfaginning</a></i>, Sleipnir is first mentioned in chapter 15 where the enthroned figure of <a href="/wiki/High,_Just-As-High,_and_Third" class="mw-redirect" title="High, Just-As-High, and Third">High</a> says that every day the Æsir ride across the bridge <a href="/wiki/Bifr%C3%B6st" title="Bifröst">Bifröst</a>, and provides a list of the Æsir's horses. The list begins with Sleipnir: "best is Sleipnir, he is Odin's, he has eight legs."<sup id="cite_ref-FAULKES18_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FAULKES18-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In chapter 41, High quotes the <i>Grímnismál</i> stanza that mentions Sleipnir.<sup id="cite_ref-FAULKES34_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FAULKES34-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In chapter 42, Sleipnir's origins are described. <a href="/wiki/Gylfi" title="Gylfi">Gangleri</a> (described earlier in the book as King <a href="/wiki/Gylfi" title="Gylfi">Gylfi</a> in disguise) asks High who the horse Sleipnir belongs to and what there is to tell about it. High expresses surprise at Gangleri's lack of knowledge about Sleipnir and its origin. High tells a story set "right at the beginning of the gods' settlement when the gods established <a href="/wiki/Midgard" title="Midgard">Midgard</a> and built <a href="/wiki/Valhalla" title="Valhalla">Val-Hall</a>" about an unnamed builder who has offered to build a fortification for the gods in three seasons that will keep out invaders in exchange for the goddess <a href="/wiki/Freyja" title="Freyja">Freyja</a>, the <a href="/wiki/S%C3%B3l_(Sun)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sól (Sun)">sun</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A1ni" title="Máni">moon</a>. After some debate, the gods agree to this, but place a number of restrictions on the builder, including that he must complete the work within three seasons with the help of no man. The builder makes a single request; that he may have help from his stallion <a href="/wiki/Sva%C3%B0ilfari" title="Svaðilfari">Svaðilfari</a>, and due to Loki's influence, this is allowed. The stallion Svaðilfari performs twice the deeds of strength as the builder and hauls enormous rocks to the surprise of the gods. The builder, with Svaðilfari, makes fast progress on the wall, and three days before the deadline of summer, the builder was nearly at the entrance to the fortification. The gods convene and figured out who was responsible, resulting in a unanimous agreement that, along with most trouble, Loki was to blame.<sup id="cite_ref-FAULKES35_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FAULKES35-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The gods declare that Loki would deserve a horrible death if he could not find a scheme that would cause the builder to forfeit his payment, and threatened to attack him. Loki, afraid, swore oaths that he would devise a scheme to cause the builder to forfeit the payment, whatever it would cost himself. That night, the builder drove out to fetch stone with his stallion Svaðilfari, and out from a wood ran a mare. The mare neighed at Svaðilfari, and "realizing what kind of horse it was," Svaðilfari became frantic, neighed, tore apart his tackle, and ran towards the mare. The mare ran to the wood, Svaðilfari followed, and the builder chased after. The two horses ran around all night, causing the building work to be held up for the night, and the previous momentum of building work that the builder had been able to maintain was not continued.<sup id="cite_ref-FAULKES36_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FAULKES36-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the Æsir realize that the builder is a <a href="/wiki/Hrimthurs" class="mw-redirect" title="Hrimthurs">hrimthurs</a>, they disregard their previous oaths with the builder, and call for Thor. Thor arrives, and kills the builder by smashing the builder's skull into shards with the hammer <a href="/wiki/Mj%C3%B6llnir" class="mw-redirect" title="Mjöllnir">Mjöllnir</a>. However, Loki had "such dealings" with Svaðilfari that "somewhat later" Loki gave birth to a grey <a href="/wiki/Foal" title="Foal">foal</a> with eight legs; the horse Sleipnir, "the best horse among gods and men."<sup id="cite_ref-FAULKES36_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FAULKES36-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In chapter 49, High describes the death of the god <a href="/wiki/Baldr" title="Baldr">Baldr</a>. <a href="/wiki/Herm%C3%B3%C3%B0r" title="Hermóðr">Hermóðr</a> agrees to ride to Hel to offer a ransom for Baldr's return, and so "then Odin's horse Sleipnir was fetched and led forward." Hermóðr mounts Sleipnir and rides away. Hermóðr rides for <a href="/wiki/Numbers_in_Germanic_paganism" title="Numbers in Germanic paganism">nine nights</a> in deep, dark valleys where Hermóðr can see nothing. The two arrive at the river <a href="/wiki/Gj%C3%B6ll" title="Gjöll">Gjöll</a> and then continue to Gjöll bridge, encountering a maiden guarding the bridge named <a href="/wiki/M%C3%B3%C3%B0gu%C3%B0r" title="Móðguðr">Móðguðr</a>. Some dialogue occurs between Hermóðr and Móðguðr, including that Móðguðr notes that recently there had ridden five battalions of dead men across the bridge that made less sound than he. Sleipnir and Hermóðr continue "downwards and northwards" on the road to Hel, until the two arrive at Hel's gates. Hermóðr dismounts from Sleipnir, tightens Sleipnir's <a href="/wiki/Girth_(tack)" title="Girth (tack)">girth</a>, mounts him, and spurs Sleipnir on. Sleipnir "jumped so hard and over the gate that it came nowhere near." Hermóðr rides up to the hall, and dismounts from Sleipnir. After Hermóðr's pleas to <a href="/wiki/Hel_(being)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hel (being)">Hel</a> to return Baldr are accepted under a condition, Hermóðr and Baldr retrace their path backward and return to <a href="/wiki/Asgard" title="Asgard">Asgard</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FAULKES49-50_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FAULKES49-50-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In chapter 16 of the book <i><a href="/wiki/Sk%C3%A1ldskaparm%C3%A1l" title="Skáldskaparmál">Skáldskaparmál</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/Kenning" title="Kenning">kenning</a> given for Loki is "relative of Sleipnir."<sup id="cite_ref-FAULKES76_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FAULKES76-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In chapter 17, a story is provided in which Odin rides Sleipnir into the land of <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B6tunheimr" title="Jötunheimr">Jötunheimr</a> and arrives at the residence of the <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B6tunn" title="Jötunn">jötunn</a> <a href="/wiki/Hrungnir" title="Hrungnir">Hrungnir</a>. Hrungnir asks "what sort of person this was" wearing a golden helmet, "riding sky and sea," and says that the stranger "has a marvellously good horse." Odin wagers his head that no horse as good could be found in all of Jötunheimr. Hrungnir admitted that it was a fine horse, yet states that he owns a much longer-paced horse; <a href="/wiki/Gullfaxi" title="Gullfaxi">Gullfaxi</a>. Incensed, Hrungnir leaps atop Gullfaxi, intending to attack Odin for Odin's boasting. Odin gallops hard ahead of Hrungnir, and, in his, fury, Hrungnir finds himself having rushed into the gates of Asgard.<sup id="cite_ref-FAULKES77_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FAULKES77-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In chapter 58, Sleipnir is mentioned among a list of horses in <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%9Eorgr%C3%ADms%C3%BEula&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Þorgrímsþula (page does not exist)">Þorgrímsþula</a></i>: "Hrafn and Sleipnir, splendid horses [...]".<sup id="cite_ref-FAULKES136_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FAULKES136-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, Sleipnir occurs twice in kennings for "<a href="/wiki/Ship" title="Ship">ship</a>" (once appearing in chapter 25 in a work by the <a href="/wiki/Skald" title="Skald">skald</a> Refr, and "sea-Sleipnir" appearing in chapter 49 in <i><a href="/wiki/H%C3%BAsdr%C3%A1pa" title="Húsdrápa">Húsdrápa</a></i>, a work by the 10th century skald <a href="/wiki/%C3%9Alfr_Uggason" title="Úlfr Uggason">Úlfr Uggason</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-FAULKES92and121_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FAULKES92and121-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hervarar_saga_ok_Heiðreks"><span id="Hervarar_saga_ok_Hei.C3.B0reks"></span><i>Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleipnir&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Odin,_Sleipnir,_Geri,_Freki,_Huginn_and_Muninn_by_Fr%C3%B8lich.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Odin%2C_Sleipnir%2C_Geri%2C_Freki%2C_Huginn_and_Muninn_by_Fr%C3%B8lich.jpg/220px-Odin%2C_Sleipnir%2C_Geri%2C_Freki%2C_Huginn_and_Muninn_by_Fr%C3%B8lich.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="191" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Odin%2C_Sleipnir%2C_Geri%2C_Freki%2C_Huginn_and_Muninn_by_Fr%C3%B8lich.jpg/330px-Odin%2C_Sleipnir%2C_Geri%2C_Freki%2C_Huginn_and_Muninn_by_Fr%C3%B8lich.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Odin%2C_Sleipnir%2C_Geri%2C_Freki%2C_Huginn_and_Muninn_by_Fr%C3%B8lich.jpg 2x" data-file-width="332" data-file-height="288" /></a><figcaption>Odin sits atop his steed Sleipnir, his ravens <a href="/wiki/Huginn_and_Muninn" title="Huginn and Muninn">Huginn and Muninn</a> and wolves <a href="/wiki/Geri_and_Freki" title="Geri and Freki">Geri and Freki</a> nearby (1895) by <a href="/wiki/Lorenz_Fr%C3%B8lich" title="Lorenz Frølich">Lorenz Frølich</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Hervarar_saga_ok_Hei%C3%B0reks" title="Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks">Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks</a></i>, the poem <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hei%C3%B0reks_g%C3%A1tur&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Heiðreks gátur (page does not exist)">Heiðreks gátur</a></i> contains a riddle that mentions Sleipnir and Odin: </p> <blockquote> <dl><dd>36. <a href="/wiki/Gestumblindi" title="Gestumblindi">Gestumblindi</a> said:</dd> <dd>"Who are the twain</dd> <dd>that on ten feet run?</dd> <dd>three eyes they have,</dd> <dd>but only one tail.</dd> <dd>Alright guess now</dd> <dd>this riddle, Heithrek!"</dd></dl> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Heidrek" title="Heidrek">Heithrek</a> said:</dd> <dd>"Good is thy riddle, Gestumblindi,</dd> <dd>and guessed it is:</dd> <dd>that is Odin riding on Sleipnir."<sup id="cite_ref-HOLLANDER91_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HOLLANDER91-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> </blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Völsunga_saga"><span id="V.C3.B6lsunga_saga"></span><i>Völsunga saga</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleipnir&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Völsunga saga"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In chapter 13 of <i><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6lsunga_saga" title="Völsunga saga">Völsunga saga</a></i>, the hero <a href="/wiki/Sigurd" title="Sigurd">Sigurðr</a> is on his way to a wood and he meets a <a href="/wiki/Odin" title="Odin">long-bearded old man</a> he had never seen before. Sigurd tells the old man that he is going to choose a horse, and asks the old man to come with him to help him decide. The old man says that they should drive the horses down to the river Busiltjörn. The two drive the horses down into the deeps of Busiltjörn, and all of the horses swim back to land but a large, young, and handsome grey horse that no one had ever mounted. The grey-bearded old man says that the horse is from "Sleipnir's kin" and that "he must be raised carefully, because he will become better than any other horse." The old man vanishes. Sigurd names the horse <a href="/wiki/Grani" title="Grani">Grani</a>, and the narrative adds that the old man was none other than (the god) <a href="/wiki/Odin" title="Odin">Odin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BYOCK56_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BYOCK56-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gesta_Danorum"><i>Gesta Danorum</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleipnir&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Gesta Danorum"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hading_og_den_en%C3%B8jede_Gamle.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Hading_og_den_en%C3%B8jede_Gamle.jpg/220px-Hading_og_den_en%C3%B8jede_Gamle.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="251" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Hading_og_den_en%C3%B8jede_Gamle.jpg/330px-Hading_og_den_en%C3%B8jede_Gamle.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Hading_og_den_en%C3%B8jede_Gamle.jpg/440px-Hading_og_den_en%C3%B8jede_Gamle.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1335" data-file-height="1521" /></a><figcaption>"Hadingus and the Old Man" (1898) by <a href="/wiki/Louis_Moe" title="Louis Moe">Louis Moe</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Sleipnir is generally considered as appearing in a sequence of events described in book I of <i><a href="/wiki/Gesta_Danorum" title="Gesta Danorum">Gesta Danorum</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-LINDOW276-2777_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LINDOW276-2777-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In book I, the young <a href="/wiki/Hadingus" title="Hadingus">Hadingus</a> encounters "a certain man of great age who had lost an eye" who allies him with Liserus. Hadingus and Liserus set out to wage war on Lokerus, ruler of <a href="/wiki/Courland" title="Courland">Kurland</a>. Meeting defeat, the old man takes Hadingus with him onto his horse as they flee to the old man's house, and the two drink an invigorating draught. The old man sings a prophecy, and takes Hadingus back to where he found him on his horse. During the ride back, Hadingus trembles beneath the old man's <a href="/wiki/Mantle_(vesture)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mantle (vesture)">mantle</a>, and peers out of its holes. Hadingus realizes that Sleipnir is running over the sea: "and he saw that before the steps of the horse lay the sea; but was told not to steal a glimpse of the forbidden thing, and therefore turned his amazed eyes from the dread spectacle of the roads that he journeyed."<sup id="cite_ref-ELTON104-105_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ELTON104-105-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In book II, <a href="/wiki/B%C3%B6dvar_Bjarki" title="Bödvar Bjarki">Biarco</a> mentions Odin and Sleipnir: "If I may look on the awful husband of <a href="/wiki/Frigg" title="Frigg">Frigg</a>, howsoever he be covered in his white shield, and guide his tall steed, he shall in no way go safe out of <a href="/wiki/Lejre" title="Lejre">Leire</a>; it is lawful to lay low in war the war-waging god."<sup id="cite_ref-ELTON147_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ELTON147-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Archaeological_record">Archaeological record</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleipnir&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Archaeological record"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Two of the 8th century <a href="/wiki/Picture_stone" title="Picture stone">picture stones</a> from the island of <a href="/wiki/Gotland" title="Gotland">Gotland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a> depict eight-legged horses, which are thought by most scholars to depict Sleipnir: the <a href="/wiki/Tj%C3%A4ngvide_image_stone" title="Tjängvide image stone">Tjängvide image stone</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Ardre_image_stones" title="Ardre image stones">Ardre VIII image stone</a>. Both stones feature a rider sitting atop an eight-legged horse, which some scholars view as Odin. Above the rider on the Tjängvide image stone is a horizontal figure holding a spear, which may be a <a href="/wiki/Valkyrie" title="Valkyrie">valkyrie</a>, and a female figure greets the rider with a cup. The scene has been interpreted as a rider arriving at the world of the dead.<sup id="cite_ref-LINDOW277_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LINDOW277-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mid-7th century <a href="/wiki/Eggja_stone" title="Eggja stone">Eggja stone</a> bearing the <a href="/wiki/List_of_names_of_Odin" title="List of names of Odin">Odinic name</a> <i>haras</i> (<a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a> 'army god') may be interpreted as depicting Sleipnir.<sup id="cite_ref-SIMEK140_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SIMEK140-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/English_Runic_Inscription_2" title="English Runic Inscription 2">English Runic Inscription 2</a> (11th century) is also believed by some scholars to depict Sleipnir.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bildstenen_Volundstenen.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Ardre VIII image stone"><img alt="The Ardre VIII image stone" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Bildstenen_Volundstenen.jpg/84px-Bildstenen_Volundstenen.jpg" decoding="async" width="84" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Bildstenen_Volundstenen.jpg/127px-Bildstenen_Volundstenen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Bildstenen_Volundstenen.jpg/169px-Bildstenen_Volundstenen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1988" data-file-height="2821" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The Ardre VIII image stone</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ringerike_St_Paul_runetone.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="English Runic Inscription 2"><img alt="English Runic Inscription 2" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Ringerike_St_Paul_runetone.jpg/120px-Ringerike_St_Paul_runetone.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="119" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Ringerike_St_Paul_runetone.jpg/180px-Ringerike_St_Paul_runetone.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Ringerike_St_Paul_runetone.jpg/240px-Ringerike_St_Paul_runetone.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="597" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/English_Runic_Inscription_2" title="English Runic Inscription 2">English Runic Inscription 2</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Theories">Theories</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleipnir&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Theories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Odin_rides_to_Hel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Odin_rides_to_Hel.jpg/300px-Odin_rides_to_Hel.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="196" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Odin_rides_to_Hel.jpg/450px-Odin_rides_to_Hel.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Odin_rides_to_Hel.jpg/600px-Odin_rides_to_Hel.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1734" data-file-height="1130" /></a><figcaption>"<a href="/wiki/Odin" title="Odin">Odin</a> Rides to <a href="/wiki/Hel_(location)" title="Hel (location)">Hel</a>" (1908) by <a href="/wiki/W._G._Collingwood" title="W. G. Collingwood">W. G. Collingwood</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/John_Lindow" title="John Lindow">John Lindow</a> theorizes that Sleipnir's "connection to the world of the dead grants a special poignancy to one of the kennings in which Sleipnir turns up as a horse word," referring to the skald Úlfr Uggason's usage of "sea-Sleipnir" in his <i>Húsdrápa</i>, which describes the funeral of Baldr. Lindow continues that "his use of Sleipnir in the kenning may show that Sleipnir's role in the failed recovery of Baldr was known at that time and place in Iceland; it certainly indicates that Sleipnir was an active participant in the mythology of the last decades of paganism." Lindow adds that the eight legs of Sleipnir "have been interpreted as an indication of great speed or as being connected in some unclear way with cult activity."<sup id="cite_ref-LINDOW277_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LINDOW277-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Hilda_Ellis_Davidson" title="Hilda Ellis Davidson">Hilda Ellis Davidson</a> says that "the eight-legged horse of Odin is the typical steed of the shaman" and that in the shaman's journeys to the heavens or the underworld, a shaman "is usually represented as riding on some bird or animal." Davidson says that while the creature may vary, the horse is fairly common "in the lands where horses are in general use, and Sleipnir's ability to bear the god through the air is typical of the shaman's steed" and cites an example from a study of shamanism by <a href="/wiki/Mircea_Eliade" title="Mircea Eliade">Mircea Eliade</a> of an eight-legged foal from a story of a <a href="/wiki/Buryats" title="Buryats">Buryat</a> shaman. Davidson says that while attempts have been made to connect Sleipnir with <a href="/wiki/Hobby_horse" title="Hobby horse">hobby horses</a> and steeds with more than four feet that appear in carnivals and processions, but that "a more fruitful resemblance seems to be on the <a href="/wiki/Bier" title="Bier">bier</a> on which a dead man is carried in the funeral procession by four bearers; borne along thus, he may be described as riding on a steed with eight legs." As an example, Davidson cites a funeral <a href="/wiki/Dirge" title="Dirge">dirge</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Gondi_people" title="Gondi people">Gondi people</a> in <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> as recorded by <a href="/wiki/Verrier_Elwin" title="Verrier Elwin">Verrier Elwin</a>, stating that "it contains references to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bagri_Maro&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bagri Maro (page does not exist)">Bagri Maro</a>, the horse with eight legs, and it is clear from the song that it is the dead man's bier." Davidson says that the song is sung when a distinguished <a href="/wiki/Muria_people" title="Muria people">Muria</a> dies, and provides a verse:<sup id="cite_ref-DAVIDSON142-143_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DAVIDSON142-143-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote> <dl><dd>What horse is this?</dd> <dd>It is the horse of Bagri Maro.</dd> <dd>What should we say of its legs?</dd> <dd>This horse has eight legs.</dd> <dd>What should we say of its heads?</dd> <dd>This horse has four heads. . . .</dd> <dd>Catch the bridle and mount the horse.<sup id="cite_ref-DAVIDSON142-143_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DAVIDSON142-143-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> </blockquote> <p>Davidson adds that the representation of Odin's steed as eight-legged could arise naturally out of such an image, and that "this is in accordance with the picture of Sleipnir as a horse that could bear its rider to the land of the dead."<sup id="cite_ref-DAVIDSON142-143_24-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DAVIDSON142-143-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ulla Loumand cites Sleipnir and the flying horse <a href="/wiki/Gn%C3%A1_and_H%C3%B3fvarpnir" title="Gná and Hófvarpnir">Hófvarpnir</a> as "prime examples" of horses in Norse mythology as being able to "mediate between earth and sky, between <a href="/wiki/%C3%81sgar%C3%B0r" class="mw-redirect" title="Ásgarðr">Ásgarðr</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mi%C3%B0gar%C3%B0r" class="mw-redirect" title="Miðgarðr">Miðgarðr</a> and <a href="/wiki/%C3%9Atgar%C3%B0r" class="mw-redirect" title="Útgarðr">Útgarðr</a> and between the world of mortal men and the underworld."<sup id="cite_ref-LOUMAND133_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LOUMAND133-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Indo-European_Culture" title="Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture">Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture</a></i> theorizes that Sleipnir's eight legs may be the remnants of horse-associated <a href="/wiki/Divine_twins" title="Divine twins">divine twins</a> found in <a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans" title="Proto-Indo-Europeans">Indo-European</a> cultures and ultimately stemming from <a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Indo-European religion">Proto-Indo-European religion</a>. The encyclopedia states that "[...] Sleipnir is born with an extra set of legs, thus representing an original pair of horses. Like <a href="/wiki/Freyr" title="Freyr">Freyr</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nj%C3%B6r%C3%B0r" title="Njörðr">Njörðr</a>, Sleipnir is responsible for carrying the dead to the otherworld." The encyclopedia cites parallels between the birth of Sleipnir and myths originally pointing to a <a href="/wiki/Celtic_polytheism" class="mw-redirect" title="Celtic polytheism">Celtic</a> goddess who gave birth to the Divine horse twins. These elements include a demand for a goddess by an unwanted suitor (the <a href="/wiki/Hrimthurs" class="mw-redirect" title="Hrimthurs">hrimthurs</a> demanding the goddess <a href="/wiki/Freyja" title="Freyja">Freyja</a>) and the seduction of builders.<sup id="cite_ref-MALLORYADAMS163_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MALLORYADAMS163-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_influence">Modern influence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleipnir&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Modern influence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Asbyrgi_Canyon_Iceland_2005.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Asbyrgi_Canyon_Iceland_2005.JPG/220px-Asbyrgi_Canyon_Iceland_2005.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Asbyrgi_Canyon_Iceland_2005.JPG/330px-Asbyrgi_Canyon_Iceland_2005.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Asbyrgi_Canyon_Iceland_2005.JPG/440px-Asbyrgi_Canyon_Iceland_2005.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>The horseshoe-shaped canyon <a href="/wiki/%C3%81sbyrgi" title="Ásbyrgi">Ásbyrgi</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>According to Icelandic folklore, the <a href="/wiki/Horseshoe-shaped" class="mw-redirect" title="Horseshoe-shaped">horseshoe-shaped</a> canyon <a href="/wiki/%C3%81sbyrgi" title="Ásbyrgi">Ásbyrgi</a> located in <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B6kuls%C3%A1rglj%C3%BAfur_National_Park" title="Jökulsárgljúfur National Park">Jökulsárgljúfur National Park</a>, northern <a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Iceland</a> was formed by Sleipnir's hoof.<sup id="cite_ref-SIMEK294_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SIMEK294-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sleipnir is depicted with Odin on <a href="/wiki/Dagfin_Werenskiold" title="Dagfin Werenskiold">Dagfin Werenskiold</a>'s wooden relief <i>Odin på Sleipnir</i> (1945–1950) on the exterior of the <a href="/wiki/Oslo_City_Hall" title="Oslo City Hall">Oslo City Hall</a> in <a href="/wiki/Oslo" title="Oslo">Oslo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-OSLOKOMMUNE_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OSLOKOMMUNE-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sleipnir has been and remains a popular name for ships in northern Europe, and <a href="/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling" title="Rudyard Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a>'s short story entitled <i>Sleipner, late Thurinda</i> (1888) features a horse named Sleipner.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SIMEK294_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SIMEK294-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A statue of Sleipnir (1998) stands in <a href="/wiki/Wednesbury" title="Wednesbury">Wednesbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, a town which takes its name from the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_paganism" title="Anglo-Saxon paganism">Anglo-Saxon</a> version of Odin, <a href="/wiki/W%C5%8Dden" class="mw-redirect" title="Wōden">Wōden</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NOSZLOPY181_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NOSZLOPY181-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleipnir&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_horses_in_mythology_and_folklore" title="List of horses in mythology and folklore">List of horses in mythology and folklore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helhest" title="Helhest">Helhest</a>, the three-legged "Hel horse" of later Scandinavian folklore</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horses_in_Germanic_paganism" title="Horses in Germanic paganism">Horses in Germanic paganism</a></li> <li>The "<a href="/wiki/T%C3%A1ltos" title="Táltos">táltos</a> steed", a six-legged horse in Hungarian folklore</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pegasus" title="Pegasus">Pegasus</a>, the winged horse of Greek mythology</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinterklaas" title="Sinterklaas">Sinterklaas</a>'s white stallion, on which he rides along the roofs in winter</li> <li><a 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class="references"> <li id="cite_note-ORCHARD151-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ORCHARD151_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Orchard (1997:151).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-KERMODE6-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-KERMODE6_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kermode (1904:6).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LARRINGTON58-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-LARRINGTON58_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Larrington (1999:58).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LARRINGTON169-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-LARRINGTON169_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Larrington (1999:169).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LARRINGTON243-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-LARRINGTON243_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Larrington (1999:243).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LARRINGTON258-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-LARRINGTON258_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Larrington (1999:258).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FAULKES18-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FAULKES18_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Faulkes (1995:18).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FAULKES34-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FAULKES34_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Faulkes (1995:34).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FAULKES35-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FAULKES35_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Faulkes (1995:35).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FAULKES36-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FAULKES36_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FAULKES36_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Faulkes (1995:36).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FAULKES49-50-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FAULKES49-50_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Faulkes (1995:49–50).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FAULKES76-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FAULKES76_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Faulkes (1995:76).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FAULKES77-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FAULKES77_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Faulkes (1995:77).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FAULKES136-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FAULKES136_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Faulkes (1995:136).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FAULKES92and121-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FAULKES92and121_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Faulkes (1995:92 and 121).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-HOLLANDER91-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-HOLLANDER91_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hollander (1936:99).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-BYOCK56-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-BYOCK56_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Byock (1990:56).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LINDOW276-2777-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-LINDOW276-2777_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lindow (2001:276–277).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ELTON104-105-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ELTON104-105_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Grammaticus & Elton (2006:104–105).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ELTON147-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ELTON147_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Grammaticus & Elton (2006:147).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LINDOW277-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-LINDOW277_21-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LINDOW277_21-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lindow (2001:277).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-SIMEK140-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-SIMEK140_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Simek (2007:140).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Forte, Oram, and Pedersen (2005), <i>Viking Empires</i>, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output 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0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-82992-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-521-82992-5">0-521-82992-5</a> p. 73</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-DAVIDSON142-143-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-DAVIDSON142-143_24-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DAVIDSON142-143_24-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DAVIDSON142-143_24-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Davidson (1990:142–143).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LOUMAND133-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-LOUMAND133_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Loumand (2006:133).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-MALLORYADAMS163-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-MALLORYADAMS163_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mallory. Adams (1997:163).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-SIMEK294-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-SIMEK294_27-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SIMEK294_27-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Simek (2007:294).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-OSLOKOMMUNE-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-OSLOKOMMUNE_28-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMunicipality_of_Oslo2001" class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Municipality of Oslo (26 June 2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090125125123/http://www.oslo.kommune.no/losartikler/article23199-7726.html?articleID=23199&categoryID=7726&tip=1">"Yggdrasilfrisen"</a> (in Norwegian). Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oslo.kommune.no/losartikler/article23199-7726.html?articleID=23199&categoryID=7726&tip=1">the original</a> on 25 January 2009<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 December</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Yggdrasilfrisen&rft.date=2001-06-26&rft.au=Municipality+of+Oslo&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oslo.kommune.no%2Flosartikler%2Farticle23199-7726.html%3FarticleID%3D23199%26categoryID%3D7726%26tip%3D1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASleipnir" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKipling1909" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling" title="Rudyard Kipling">Kipling, Rudyard</a> (1909). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=KeEhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA141"><i>Abaft the Funnel</i></a>. New York: B. W. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 March</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Abaft+the+Funnel&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=B.+W.+Dodge+%26+Company&rft.date=1909&rft.aulast=Kipling&rft.aufirst=Rudyard&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DKeEhAAAAMAAJ%26pg%3DPA141&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASleipnir" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-NOSZLOPY181-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-NOSZLOPY181_30-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Noszlopy, Waterhouse (2005:181).</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleipnir&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li>Byock, Jesse (Trans.) (1990). <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=x8rO2P0VmjQC">The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/University_of_California_Press" title="University of California Press">University of California Press</a>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-520-23285-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-520-23285-2">0-520-23285-2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._R._Ellis_Davidson" class="mw-redirect" title="H. R. Ellis Davidson">Ellis Davidson, H. R.</a> (1990). <i>Gods And Myths Of Northern Europe</i>. <a href="/wiki/Penguin_Books" title="Penguin Books">Penguin</a>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-14-013627-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-14-013627-4">0-14-013627-4</a></li> <li>Faulkes, Anthony (Trans.) (1995). <i>Edda</i>. <a href="/wiki/Everyman%27s_Library" title="Everyman's Library">Everyman</a>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-460-87616-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-460-87616-3">0-460-87616-3</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGrammaticusElton1905" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Saxo_Grammaticus" title="Saxo Grammaticus">Grammaticus, Saxo</a>; <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Elton" title="Oliver Elton">Elton, Oliver</a> (1905). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/saxo"><i>The Danish History</i></a>. 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Columbia University Press</li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._M._C._Kermode" class="mw-redirect" title="P. M. C. Kermode">Kermode, Philip Moore Callow</a> (1904). <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_TmUWAAAAYAAJ">Traces of Norse Mythology in the Isle of Man</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University_Press" title="Harvard University Press">Harvard University Press</a>.</li> <li>Larrington, Carolyne (Trans.) (1999). <i>The Poetic Edda</i>. <a href="/wiki/Oxford_World%27s_Classics" title="Oxford World's Classics">Oxford World's Classics</a>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-283946-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-283946-2">0-19-283946-2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lindow" title="John Lindow">Lindow, John</a> (2001). <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=KlT7tv3eMSwC">Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-515382-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-515382-0">0-19-515382-0</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLoumand2006" class="citation book cs1">Loumand, Ulla (2006). "The Horse and its Role in Icelandic Burial Practices, Mythology, and Society". In Andrén, Anders; Jennbert, Kristina; et al. (eds.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=gjq6rvoIRpAC"><i>Old Norse Religion in Long Term Perspectives: Origins, Changes and Interactions, an International Conference in Lund, Sweden, June 3–7, 2004</i></a>. Lund: Nordic Academic Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/91-89116-81-X" title="Special:BookSources/91-89116-81-X"><bdi>91-89116-81-X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Horse+and+its+Role+in+Icelandic+Burial+Practices%2C+Mythology%2C+and+Society&rft.btitle=Old+Norse+Religion+in+Long+Term+Perspectives%3A+Origins%2C+Changes+and+Interactions%2C+an+International+Conference+in+Lund%2C+Sweden%2C+June+3%E2%80%937%2C+2004&rft.place=Lund&rft.pub=Nordic+Academic+Press&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=91-89116-81-X&rft.aulast=Loumand&rft.aufirst=Ulla&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dgjq6rvoIRpAC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASleipnir" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._P._Mallory" title="J. P. Mallory">Mallory, J. P.</a> <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Q._Adams" title="Douglas Q. 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<li><a href="/wiki/Odin_from_Lejre" title="Odin from Lejre">Odin from Lejre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Odin" title="List of places named after Odin">Places named after Odin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valknut" title="Valknut">Valknut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wild_Hunt" title="Wild Hunt">Wild Hunt</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Death_in_Germanic_paganism_and_mythology" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#adadad"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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href="/wiki/Odin" title="Odin">Odin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%93%C3%B0r" title="Óðr">Óðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thor" title="Thor">Thor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T%C3%BDr" title="Týr">Týr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ullr" title="Ullr">Ullr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%A1li" title="Váli">Váli (son of Odin)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%AD%C3%B0arr" title="Víðarr">Víðarr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vili_and_V%C3%A9" title="Vili and Vé">Vili and Vé</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/%C3%86sir" title="Æsir">Ásynjur</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hj%C3%BAki_and_Bil" title="Hjúki and Bil">Bil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eir" title="Eir">Eir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frigg" title="Frigg">Frigg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fulla" title="Fulla">Fulla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gefjon" title="Gefjon">Gefjon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ger%C3%B0r" title="Gerðr">Gerðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gn%C3%A1_and_H%C3%B3fvarpnir" title="Gná and Hófvarpnir">Gná</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hl%C3%ADn" title="Hlín">Hlín</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/I%C3%B0unn" title="Iðunn">Iðunn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilmr" title="Ilmr">Ilmr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Eorger%C3%B0r_H%C3%B6lgabr%C3%BA%C3%B0r_and_Irpa" title="Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa">Irpa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lofn" title="Lofn">Lofn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nanna_(Norse_deity)" title="Nanna (Norse deity)">Nanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nj%C3%B6run" title="Njörun">Njörun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C3%A1n" title="Rán">Rán</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rindr" title="Rindr">Rindr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%A1ga_and_S%C3%B6kkvabekkr" title="Sága and Sökkvabekkr">Sága</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sif" title="Sif">Sif</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sigyn" title="Sigyn">Sigyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sj%C3%B6fn" title="Sjöfn">Sjöfn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ska%C3%B0i" title="Skaði">Skaði</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snotra" title="Snotra">Snotra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%B3l_(Germanic_mythology)" title="Sól (Germanic mythology)">Sól</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syn_(goddess)" title="Syn (goddess)">Syn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Eorger%C3%B0r_H%C3%B6lgabr%C3%BA%C3%B0r_and_Irpa" title="Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa">Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Er%C3%BA%C3%B0r" title="Þrúðr">Þrúðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%A1r" title="Vár">Vár</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6r" title="Vör">Vör</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Vanir" title="Vanir">Vanir</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Freyja" title="Freyja">Freyja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freyr" title="Freyr">Freyr</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ingunar-Freyr" title="Ingunar-Freyr">Ingunar-Freyr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yngvi" title="Yngvi">Yngvi</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gersemi" title="Gersemi">Gersemi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gullveig" title="Gullveig">Gullveig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hnoss" title="Hnoss">Hnoss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kvasir" title="Kvasir">Kvasir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nj%C3%B6r%C3%B0r" title="Njörðr">Njörðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sister-wife_of_Nj%C3%B6r%C3%B0r" title="Sister-wife of Njörðr">Sister-wife of Njörðr</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_j%C3%B6tnar_in_Norse_mythology" title="List of jötnar in Norse mythology">Jötnar</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86gir" title="Ægir">Ægir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alvaldi" title="Alvaldi">Alvaldi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angrbo%C3%B0a" title="Angrboða">Angrboða</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aurbo%C3%B0a" title="Aurboða">Aurboða</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baugi" title="Baugi">Baugi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beli_(j%C3%B6tunn)" title="Beli (jötunn)">Beli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bergelmir" title="Bergelmir">Bergelmir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bestla" title="Bestla">Bestla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%B6l%C3%BEorn" title="Bölþorn">Bölþorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%BDleistr" title="Býleistr">Býleistr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egg%C3%BE%C3%A9r" title="Eggþér">Eggþér</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F%C3%A1rbauti" title="Fárbauti">Fárbauti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fj%C3%B6lvar" title="Fjölvar">Fjölvar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fornj%C3%B3t" title="Fornjót">Fornjót</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gangr" title="Gangr">Gangr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geirr%C3%B6%C3%B0r" title="Geirröðr">Geirröðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gillingr" title="Gillingr">Gillingr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gj%C3%A1lp_and_Greip" title="Gjálp and Greip">Gjálp and Greip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gr%C3%AD%C3%B0r" title="Gríðr">Gríðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gunnl%C3%B6%C3%B0" title="Gunnlöð">Gunnlöð</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gymir_(father_of_Ger%C3%B0r)" title="Gymir (father of Gerðr)">Gymir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Har%C3%B0greipr" title="Harðgreipr">Harðgreipr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helblindi" title="Helblindi">Helblindi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helreginn" title="Helreginn">Helreginn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hljod" title="Hljod">Hljod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hr%C3%A6svelgr" title="Hræsvelgr">Hræsvelgr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hr%C3%ADmger%C3%B0r" title="Hrímgerðr">Hrímgerðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hr%C3%ADmgr%C3%ADmnir" title="Hrímgrímnir">Hrímgrímnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hr%C3%ADmnir" title="Hrímnir">Hrímnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hro%C3%B0r" title="Hroðr">Hroðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hrungnir" title="Hrungnir">Hrungnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hrymr" title="Hrymr">Hrymr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hymir" title="Hymir">Hymir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyrrokkin" title="Hyrrokkin">Hyrrokkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/I%C3%B0i" title="Iði">Iði</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%8Dm" title="Ím">Ím</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%A1rnsaxa" title="Járnsaxa">Járnsaxa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laufey_(mythology)" title="Laufey (mythology)">Laufey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leikn" title="Leikn">Leikn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litr" title="Litr">Litr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Logi_(mythology)" title="Logi (mythology)">Logi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%B6g%C3%BErasir" title="Mögþrasir">Mögþrasir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narfi" title="Narfi">Narfi (father of Nott)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%B6kkm%C3%ADmir" title="Sökkmímir">Sökkmímir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surtr" title="Surtr">Surtr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suttungr" title="Suttungr">Suttungr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Ejazi" title="Þjazi">Þjazi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9E%C3%B6kk" title="Þökk">Þökk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Er%C3%ADvaldi" title="Þrívaldi">Þrívaldi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Er%C3%BA%C3%B0gelmir" title="Þrúðgelmir">Þrúðgelmir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Erymr" title="Þrymr">Þrymr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Atgar%C3%B0a-Loki" title="Útgarða-Loki">Útgarða-Loki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaf%C3%BEr%C3%BA%C3%B0nir" title="Vafþrúðnir">Vafþrúðnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%AD%C3%B0blindi" title="Víðblindi">Víðblindi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vosud" title="Vosud">Vosud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6rnir" title="Vörnir">Vörnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ymir" title="Ymir">Ymir</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_dwarfs_in_Norse_mythology" title="List of dwarfs in Norse mythology">Dwarfs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alv%C3%ADss" title="Alvíss">Alvíss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andvari" title="Andvari">Andvari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austri,_Vestri,_Nor%C3%B0ri_and_Su%C3%B0ri" title="Austri, Vestri, Norðri and Suðri">Austri, Vestri, Norðri and Suðri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billingr" title="Billingr">Billingr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%A1inn_(Norse_dwarf)" title="Dáinn (Norse dwarf)">Dáinn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Durinn" title="Durinn">Durinn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%BArnir" title="Dúrnir">Dúrnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dvalinn" title="Dvalinn">Dvalinn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F%C3%A1fnir" title="Fáfnir">Fáfnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fjalar_and_Galar" title="Fjalar and Galar">Fjalar and Galar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gandalf_(mythology)" title="Gandalf (mythology)">Gandalf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hrei%C3%B0marr" title="Hreiðmarr">Hreiðmarr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litr" title="Litr">Litr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%B3tsognir" title="Mótsognir">Mótsognir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%93tr" title="Ótr">Ótr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regin" title="Regin">Regin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sons_of_Ivaldi" title="Sons of Ivaldi">Sons of Ivaldi</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brokkr" title="Brokkr">Brokkr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eitri" title="Eitri">Eitri</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Germanic_heroic_legend" title="Germanic heroic legend">Heroes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend" title="Lists of figures in Germanic heroic legend">List of figures in Germanic heroic legend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend,_A" title="List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, A"> A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend,_B%E2%80%93C" title="List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, B–C"> B–C</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend,_D%E2%80%93E" title="List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, D–E"> D–E</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend,_F%E2%80%93G" title="List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, F–G"> F–G</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend,_H%E2%80%93He" title="List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, H–He"> H–He</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend,_Hi%E2%80%93Hy" title="List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, Hi–Hy"> Hi–Hy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend,_I%E2%80%93O" title="List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, I–O"> I–O</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend,_P%E2%80%93S" title="List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, P–S"> P–S</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend,_T%E2%80%93Y" title="List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, T–Y"> T–Y</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people,_clan,_and_place_names_in_Germanic_heroic_legend" title="List of people, clan, and place names in Germanic heroic legend">people, clan, and place names in Germanic heroic legend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_named_animals_and_plants_in_Germanic_heroic_legend" title="List of named animals and plants in Germanic heroic legend">named animals and plants </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_named_weapons,_armour_and_treasures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend" title="List of named weapons, armour and treasures in Germanic heroic legend">named weapons, armour and treasures</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ask_and_Embla" title="Ask and Embla">Ask and Embla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Au%C3%B0r_(mythology)" title="Auðr (mythology)">Auðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Au%C3%B0umbla" title="Auðumbla">Auðumbla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aurvandill" title="Aurvandill">Aurvandill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beyla" title="Beyla">Beyla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borr" title="Borr">Borr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%BAri" title="Búri">Búri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byggvir" title="Byggvir">Byggvir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%ADs" title="Dís">Dísir</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Landd%C3%ADsir" title="Landdísir">Landdísir</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germanic_dragon" title="Germanic dragon">Dragons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Draugs" class="mw-redirect" title="Draugs">Draugs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Einherjar" title="Einherjar">Einherjar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eldir" title="Eldir">Eldir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elf" title="Elf">Elves</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%B6kk%C3%A1lfar_and_Lj%C3%B3s%C3%A1lfar" title="Dökkálfar and Ljósálfar">Dark elves (Dökkálfar)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%B6kk%C3%A1lfar_and_Lj%C3%B3s%C3%A1lfar" title="Dökkálfar and Ljósálfar">Light elves (Ljósálfar)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svart%C3%A1lfar" title="Svartálfar">Black elves (Svartálfar)</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fimafeng" title="Fimafeng">Fimafeng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fjalar_(rooster)" title="Fjalar (rooster)">Fjalar (rooster)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fenrir" title="Fenrir">Fenrir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fj%C3%B6rgyn_and_Fj%C3%B6rgynn" title="Fjörgyn and Fjörgynn">Fjörgyn and Fjörgynn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fylgja" title="Fylgja">Fylgja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garmr" title="Garmr">Garmr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gullinbursti" title="Gullinbursti">Gullinbursti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hati_Hr%C3%B3%C3%B0vitnisson" title="Hati Hróðvitnisson">Hati Hróðvitnisson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hel_(mythological_being)" title="Hel (mythological being)">Hel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hildisv%C3%ADni" class="mw-redirect" title="Hildisvíni">Hildisvíni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hj%C3%BAki_and_Bil" title="Hjúki and Bil">Hjúki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horses_of_the_%C3%86sir" title="Horses of the Æsir">Horses of the Æsir</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%81rvakr_and_Alsvi%C3%B0r" title="Árvakr and Alsviðr">Árvakr and Alsviðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bl%C3%B3%C3%B0ugh%C3%B3fi" title="Blóðughófi">Blóðughófi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falh%C3%B3fnir" title="Falhófnir">Falhófnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%ADsl" class="mw-redirect" title="Gísl">Gísl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gla%C3%B0r" title="Glaðr">Glaðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gl%C3%A6r" title="Glær">Glær</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glenr" title="Glenr">Glenr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grani" title="Grani">Grani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gullfaxi" title="Gullfaxi">Gullfaxi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulltoppr" title="Gulltoppr">Gulltoppr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gyllir" title="Gyllir">Gyllir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamskerpir_and_Gar%C3%B0rofa" title="Hamskerpir and Garðrofa">Hamskerpir and Garðrofa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gn%C3%A1_and_H%C3%B3fvarpnir" title="Gná and Hófvarpnir">Hófvarpnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skinfaxi_and_Hr%C3%ADmfaxi" title="Skinfaxi and Hrímfaxi">Skinfaxi and Hrímfaxi</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Sleipnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sva%C3%B0ilfari" title="Svaðilfari">Svaðilfari</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B6r%C3%B0" title="Jörð">Jörð</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B6rmungandr" title="Jörmungandr">Jörmungandr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%C3%ADf_and_L%C3%ADfthrasir" class="mw-redirect" title="Líf and Lífthrasir">Líf and Lífthrasir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loddf%C3%A1fnir" title="Loddfáfnir">Loddfáfnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%B3%C3%B0gu%C3%B0r" title="Móðguðr">Móðguðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nine_Daughters_of_%C3%86gir_and_R%C3%A1n" title="Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán">Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nine_Mothers_of_Heimdallr" title="Nine Mothers of Heimdallr">Nine Mothers of Heimdallr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narfi_(son_of_Loki)" title="Narfi (son of Loki)">Narfi (son of Loki)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N%C3%AD%C3%B0h%C3%B6ggr" title="Níðhöggr">Níðhöggr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norns" title="Norns">Norns</a></li> <li>Personifications <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dagr" title="Dagr">Dagr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elli" title="Elli">Elli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N%C3%B3tt" title="Nótt">Nótt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumarr_and_Vetr" title="Sumarr and Vetr">Sumarr and Vetr</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%A6hr%C3%ADmnir" title="Sæhrímnir">Sæhrímnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sk%C3%ADrnir" title="Skírnir">Skírnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sk%C3%B6ll" title="Sköll">Sköll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shield-maiden" title="Shield-maiden">Shield-maiden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tanngrisnir_and_Tanngnj%C3%B3str" title="Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr">Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troll" title="Troll">Troll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Ej%C3%A1lfi_and_R%C3%B6skva" title="Þjálfi and Röskva">Þjálfi and Röskva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%A6ttir" class="mw-redirect" title="Vættir">Vættir</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Landv%C3%A6ttir" title="Landvættir">Landvættir</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%A1li_(son_of_Loki)" title="Váli (son of Loki)">Váli (son of Loki)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valkyrie" title="Valkyrie">Valkyries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayland_the_Smith" title="Wayland the Smith">Völundr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6r%C3%B0r" title="Vörðr">Vörðr</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Locations_in_Norse_mythology" title="Category:Locations in Norse mythology">Locations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%">Underworld</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hel_(location)" title="Hel (location)">Hel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89lj%C3%BA%C3%B0nir" title="Éljúðnir">Éljúðnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gjallarbr%C3%BA" title="Gjallarbrú">Gjallarbrú</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N%C3%A1str%C3%B6nd" title="Náströnd">Náströnd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niflhel" title="Niflhel">Niflhel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ni%C3%B0afj%C3%B6ll" title="Niðafjöll">Niðafjöll</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%">Rivers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89liv%C3%A1gar" title="Élivágar">Élivágar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gj%C3%B6ll" title="Gjöll">Gjöll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%8Dfingr" title="Ífingr">Ífingr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerlaugar" title="Kerlaugar">Kerlaugar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6rmt_and_%C3%96rmt" title="Körmt and Örmt">Körmt and Örmt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slidr_River" title="Slidr River">Slidr River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vadgelmir" title="Vadgelmir">Vadgelmir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vimur_River" title="Vimur River">Vimur River</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%">Other locations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asgard" title="Asgard">Asgard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amsvartnir" title="Amsvartnir">Amsvartnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andlang" title="Andlang">Andlang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barri" title="Barri">Barri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bifr%C3%B6st" title="Bifröst">Bifröst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bilskirnir" title="Bilskirnir">Bilskirnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Br%C3%A1vellir" title="Brávellir">Brávellir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brimir" title="Brimir">Brimir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fensalir" title="Fensalir">Fensalir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F%C3%B3lkvangr" title="Fólkvangr">Fólkvangr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Signhildsberg" title="Signhildsberg">Fornsigtuna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fyrisvellir" title="Fyrisvellir">Fyrisvellir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%A1lgvi%C3%B0r" title="Gálgviðr">Gálgviðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gandvik" title="Gandvik">Gandvik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gastropnir" title="Gastropnir">Gastropnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giml%C3%A9" title="Gimlé">Gimlé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ginnungagap" title="Ginnungagap">Ginnungagap</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gla%C3%B0sheimr" title="Glaðsheimr">Glaðsheimr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gl%C3%A6sisvellir" title="Glæsisvellir">Glæsisvellir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glitnir" class="mw-redirect" title="Glitnir">Glitnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gnipahellir" title="Gnipahellir">Gnipahellir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grove_of_fetters" class="mw-redirect" title="Grove of fetters">Grove of fetters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hei%C3%B0r" title="Heiðr">Heiðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Himinbj%C3%B6rg" title="Himinbjörg">Himinbjörg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindarfjall" title="Hindarfjall">Hindarfjall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hlidskjalf" title="Hlidskjalf">Hlidskjalf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hnitbjorg" title="Hnitbjorg">Hnitbjorg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoddm%C3%ADmis_holt" title="Hoddmímis holt">Hoddmímis holt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/I%C3%B0av%C3%B6llr" title="Iðavöllr">Iðavöllr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%A1rnvi%C3%B0r" title="Járnviðr">Járnviðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B6tunheimr" title="Jötunheimr">Jötunheimr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%ADmamei%C3%B0r" title="Mímameiðr">Mímameiðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myrkvi%C3%B0r" title="Myrkviðr">Myrkviðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Munarv%C3%A1gr" title="Munarvágr">Munarvágr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N%C3%B3at%C3%BAn_(mythology)" title="Nóatún (mythology)">Nóatún</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Okolnir" title="Okolnir">Okolnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sessr%C3%BAmnir" title="Sessrúmnir">Sessrúmnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sindri_(mythology)" title="Sindri (mythology)">Sindri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Singasteinn" title="Singasteinn">Singasteinn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Er%C3%BA%C3%B0heimr" title="Þrúðheimr">Þrúðheimr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Er%C3%BA%C3%B0vangr" title="Þrúðvangr">Þrúðvangr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Erymheimr" title="Þrymheimr">Þrymheimr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamla_Uppsala" title="Gamla Uppsala">Uppsala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Atgar%C3%B0ar" title="Útgarðar">Útgarðar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valaskj%C3%A1lf" title="Valaskjálf">Valaskjálf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valhalla" title="Valhalla">Valhalla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vanaheimr" title="Vanaheimr">Vanaheimr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%AD%C3%B0bl%C3%A1inn" title="Víðbláinn">Víðbláinn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%ADgr%C3%AD%C3%B0r" title="Vígríðr">Vígríðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ving%C3%B3lf" title="Vingólf">Vingólf</a></li> <li>Wells <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hvergelmir" title="Hvergelmir">Hvergelmir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%ADmisbrunnr" title="Mímisbrunnr">Mímisbrunnr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ur%C3%B0arbrunnr" title="Urðarbrunnr">Urðarbrunnr</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Ddalir" title="Ýdalir">Ýdalir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yggdrasil" title="Yggdrasil">Yggdrasil</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Events_in_Norse_mythology" title="Category:Events in Norse mythology">Events</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86sir%E2%80%93Vanir_War" title="Æsir–Vanir War">Æsir–Vanir War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fimbulwinter" title="Fimbulwinter">Fimbulvetr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%B3%C3%B0i%27s_Peace" title="Fróði's Peace">Fróði's Peace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hja%C3%B0ningav%C3%ADg" title="Hjaðningavíg">Hjaðningavíg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k" title="Ragnarök">Ragnarök</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%">Sources</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Gesta_Danorum" title="Gesta Danorum">Gesta Danorum</a></i></span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Edda" title="Edda">Edda</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Poetic_Edda" title="Poetic Edda">Poetic Edda</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Prose_Edda" title="Prose Edda">Prose Edda</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Runestone" title="Runestone">Runestones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saga" title="Saga">Sagas</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3msv%C3%ADkinga_saga" title="Jómsvíkinga saga">Jómsvíkinga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legendary_saga" title="Legendary saga">Legendary</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyrfing_Cycle" class="mw-redirect" title="Tyrfing Cycle">Tyrfing Cycle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6lsung_Cycle" title="Völsung Cycle">Völsung Cycle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse language</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Norse_orthography" title="Old Norse orthography">Orthography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norse_mythology_in_popular_culture" title="Norse mythology in popular culture">Later influence</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%">Society</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%">Religious practice</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anthropomorphic_wooden_cult_figurines_of_Central_and_Northern_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthropomorphic wooden cult figurines of Central and Northern Europe">Anthropomorphic wooden cult figurines of Central and Northern Europe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bl%C3%B3t" title="Blót">Blót</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heathen_hof" title="Heathen hof">Hof</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heitstrenging" title="Heitstrenging">Heitstrenging</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horses_in_Germanic_paganism" title="Horses in Germanic paganism">Horses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H%C3%B6rgr" title="Hörgr">Hörgr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norse_rituals" title="Norse rituals">Worship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%96ndvegiss%C3%BAlur" title="Öndvegissúlur">Öndvegissúlur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reginnaglar" title="Reginnaglar">Reginnaglar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacred_trees_and_groves_in_Germanic_paganism_and_mythology" title="Sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology">Sacred trees and groves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonarg%C3%B6ltr" title="Sonargöltr">Sonargöltr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temple_at_Uppsala" title="Temple at Uppsala">Temple at Uppsala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Vé">Vé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wetlands_and_islands_in_Germanic_paganism" title="Wetlands and islands in Germanic paganism">Wetlands and islands</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%">Festivals and holy periods</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%81lfabl%C3%B3t" title="Álfablót">Álfablót</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%ADsabl%C3%B3t" title="Dísablót">Dísablót</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germanic_calendar" class="mw-redirect" title="Germanic calendar">Germanic calendar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Eorrabl%C3%B3t" title="Þorrablót">Þorrablót</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vetrn%C3%A6tr" class="mw-redirect" title="Vetrnætr">Vetrnætr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yule" title="Yule">Yule</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Death_in_Norse_paganism" title="Death in Norse paganism">Death</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ergi" title="Ergi">Ergi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F%C3%A9lag" title="Félag">Félag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galdr" title="Galdr">Galdr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gothi" title="Gothi">Goði</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamingja" title="Hamingja">Hamingja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heiti" title="Heiti">Heiti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenning" title="Kenning">Kenning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mead_hall" title="Mead hall">Mead hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N%C4%AB%C3%BE" title="Nīþ">Nīþ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norse_cosmology" title="Norse cosmology">Norse cosmology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Numbers_in_Norse_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Numbers in Norse mythology">Numbers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Norse_philosophy" title="Old Norse philosophy">Philosophy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rings_in_Germanic_cultures" class="mw-redirect" title="Rings in Germanic cultures">Rings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Runes" class="mw-redirect" title="Runes">Runes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sei%C3%B0r" title="Seiðr">Seiðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skald" title="Skald">Skald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viking_Age" title="Viking Age">Viking Age</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6lva" class="mw-redirect" title="Völva">Völva</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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