![]() ![]() ![]() The horse was seen as a bridge between worlds, the primary form of transportation across the spaces between the living and the dead and beyond the boundaries of reality. To understand Sleipnir's role it is important to understand that the figure of the horse was, in Viking culture, strongly symbolic, playing an important role in religion, rituals and beliefs. In addition to this, Sleipnir is the iconic symbol of the shamanic role that the horse had as a medium between the world of the living and that of the dead. The same color of Sleipnir's mottled gray coat is a mix of black and white, or light and dark, reflecting the many ways a horse could represent both good and evil, light and dark. He was born of the deceiver Loki, who is a male god transformed into a mare, often associated with evil, and of Svaðilfari, a hardworking stallion associated with good intention. Óðinn's steed is gray, has eight legs, is faster than the wind when galloping over the sea, and is the product of sex between Svaðilfari and Loki. “.and better than any other Jǫtunheimr horse" “Sleipnir is the finest steed, the best horse of the Æsir” ![]()
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