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-class coastal defense ship Gotland. The situation proved to be unsalvageable. Her bow ornament is now on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial. Odin-class coastal defense ship The "Odin" class was a pair of coastal defense ships built for the German Kaiserliche Marine in the late 19th century. The class comprised two ships: , named after the Norse god Odin, and , named after the Norse god of the same name. The ships were very similar to the preceding s, and are sometimes considered to be one class of ships. Like the preceding "Siegfried"-class ships, "Odin" and "Ägir" were obsolete by the time World