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
Odin Township, Watonwan County, Minnesota Odin Township, Watonwan County, Minnesota Odin Township is a township in Watonwan County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 206 at the 2000 census. Odin Township was organized in 1872, and named after Odin, the chief god of the Norse pantheon. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 35.5 square miles (92.0 km²); 34.6 square miles (89.6 km²) of it is land and 0.9 square miles (2.3 km²) of it (2.53%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 206 people, 86 households, and 60 families residing in the township. The