Description
Measured on a ring of size: 13/70
Weight approx.9.9 g
925 sterling silver.
Sleipnir (German Schleifner; for example "der Dahingleitende", spelling alternatively also Sleipner) designates the eight-legged horse of the god Odin both in the Snorra-Edda and the Lieder-Edda, as well as in some of the Icelandic prehistoric sagas of Nordic mythology. It got its name because it “glides” on land and water as well as in the air. In the Eddian sources Sleipnir is represented as the child of the god Loki with the stallion Svaðilfari. According to Sage, Loki had to prevent Asgard from being completed on time, as an unnamed Hrimthurse, the builder of the Asgard wall, asked the goddess Freya for the completion of the construction work. Loki kidnapped the giant's stallion, Svaðilfari, who helped his owner at work, in the form of a mare, and fathered Sleipnir with him. So the stallion had disappeared for a few days and the deadline by which Asgard was supposed to be finished passed. Loki gave birth to his child, Sleipnir, later Odin.
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