White horse (mythology) Poseidon was also the creator of horses, creating them out of the breaking waves when challenged to make a beautiful land animal. In Norse mythology, Odin's eight-legged horse Sleipnir, "the best horse among gods and men", is described as grey. Sleipnir is also the ancestor of another grey horse, Grani, who is owned by the hero Sigurd. In Slavic mythology, the war and fertility deity Svantovit owned an oracular white horse; the historian Saxo Grammaticus, in descriptions similar to those of Tacitus centuries before, says the priests divined the future by leading the white stallion between a series of fences
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen rich jewels taken from a secret store of treasure under the Edge in payment for his horse. The majority of the non-English words used in "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen" have been adopted from Norse mythology. For instance, the svart-alfar are described as the "maggot-breed of Ymir", a reference to the primeval giant of Norse myth, while the realm of Ragnarok, which in Garner's story is the home of the malevolent spirit Nastrond, is actually named after the Norse end-of-the-world myth. Fimbulwinter, the magically-induced winter weather that hinders the children's escape, also refers to Norse eschatology. Other terms are taken not