Sleipnir: Quick Facts

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Ink drawing by Jakob Sigurdsson showing Odin in a crown and robe riding his eight-legged horse Sleipnir, holding a scepter, with runic text in the upper left corner.

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Vali (or Ali), in Norse mythology, a son of the principal god, Odin, and a giantess named Rinda.

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