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
Danish ironclad Odin (1872) armor was thick. The conning tower was protected by armor plates thick. "Odin", named for the eponymous god from Norse legend, was laid down by the Naval Dockyard in Copenhagen on 13 April 1871, launched on 12 December 1872 and completed on 7 September 1874. She was stricken from the Navy List on 12 June 1912 and sold for scrap. The ship was broken up in the Netherlands. Danish ironclad Odin (1872) The Danish ironclad "Odin" was a central battery ironclad built for the Royal Danish Navy in the 1870s. She was scrapped in 1912. The ship was long overall