5/28/2023 0 Comments Odin sleipnirLoki is also credited with giving birth to Sleipnir, Odin’s eight-legged horse. With the female giant Angerboda (Angrboda: “Distress Bringer”), Loki produced the progeny Hel, the goddess of death Jörmungand, the serpent that surrounds the world and Fenrir (Fenrisúlfr), the wolf. Also like Prometheus, Loki is considered a god of fire. Loki was bound to a rock (by the entrails of one or more of his sons, according to some sources) as punishment, thus in many ways resembling the Greek figures Prometheus and Tantalus. He was the principal cause of the death of the god Balder. Odin said he would wager his head on it that that there would be no horse as good to be found in Giantland. Then Hrungnir asked what sort of person this was with the golden helmet riding sky and sea, and said he had a marvellously good horse. He also appeared as the enemy of the gods, entering their banquet uninvited and demanding their drink. Odin rode Sleipnir into Giantland and arrived at a giant’s called Hrungnir. While Sleipnir was the best of horses, Odin was considered as the mightiest of the Norse gods. Sleipnir, Odin's enormous, eight-legged steed, emerges between the other horses, pale as a moonbeam, his halter glowing. See the majesty of the Norse high god, in extraordinarily detailed cold cast. Though he was fathered by Loki, it was Odin who eventually rode and owned Sleipnir. Loki was represented as the companion of the great gods Odin and Thor, helping them with his clever plans but sometimes causing embarrassment and difficulty for them and himself. The All Father is the ruler of Asgard, god of war, wisdom, poetry, and death. Although his father was the giant Fárbauti, he was included among the Aesir (a tribe of gods). Sleipnir is Odins destrier, his faithful steed, which accompanies him in his battles. Loki, in Norse mythology, a cunning trickster who had the ability to change his shape and sex.
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