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Sleipnir

[ sleyp-nir ]

noun

Scandinavian Mythology.
  1. the eight-legged horse of Odin.


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“While the intelligence report didn’t eliminate the hypothesis that UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin, it is also likely unable to eliminate the hypotheses that UFOs are dragons or flying pigs or the Norse god Odin riding Sleipnir, his magical eight-legged horse. Unidentified flying objects are just that: airborne objects that we can’t identify,” writes Adam Larson on NBC News.

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Odin gave him his horse Sleipnir and he sped down to Niflheim.

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He slowed Sleipnir to a walk as they crossed the bridge, which swung and shook beneath them.

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Odin will ride the horse Sleipnir to Mimir’s well to ask the head of Mimir for counsel, for himself and for the gods.

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The foal grew into a horse called Sleipnir, a huge gray stallion, the fastest and the strongest horse that ever there had been or ever there would be, a horse that could outrun the wind.

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