Sometimes, it is being shown with a split from the hips and shoulders, as two legs both distinct and joined together, while often, the knee that the leg is divided is focused on. Sleipnir has each leg doubled which is 8 legs in total. According to a myth, its teeth were engraved with runes as Valkyries had requested. Its fur is grey, while its tail and mane are deep dark grey. Sleipnir is the incarnation of a powerful, muscular, great horse. It seems that for the northern peoples this winged horse embodied the hope that the heroically fallen would eventually be led to the residence of the gods. Sleipnir was the famous horse of the god Odin the All-father, with which he descended from heaven to earth and led to Asgard the heroes who fell in battle. From the meeting of the two horses, Sleipnir was born, a winged horse with eight legs. The god Loki transformed into a beautiful mare, attracted the giant's magic horse and led it to a forest. The gods promised the giant that if he completed the work in three winters, they would give him the Sun, the Moon and the goddess of love Freya.īut the gods, seeing that the giant was using the magic horse Svadilfari, to carry huge volumes of rock with incredible speed, changed their minds, so that the giant could not meet the terms of the agreement and so did not have to fulfill their promise.
In order to build the castle, the gods were looking for a skilled craftsman, whom they found in the face of a giant. Myth wants the Scandinavian gods to reside up in the sky in a castle called "Asgard". Traveling north, to the country of Vikings, Iceland, we meet this winged horse that does not simply belong to a hero, but to the leading deity of the Icelandic pantheon, the father of gods and humans, Odin. But, surprisingly, Loki was not the father, but the mother of Sleipnir.
Sleipnir was a son of Loki, the trickster god that lived among the Asgardian gods. Odin is a warrior god, thus when going to war it is on the back of his eight-legged horse, Sleipnir (The origin of the name “Sleipnir” would come from the Old Norse “the sliding one”, due to his ability to slide between worlds). Introducing Sleipnir, the eight-legged horse
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