Sleipnir man sings a prophecy, and takes Hadingus back to where he found him on his horse. During the ride back, Hadingus trembles beneath the old man's mantle, and peers out of its holes. Hadingus realizes that he is flying through the air: "and he saw that before the steps of the horse lay the sea; but was told not to steal a glimpse of the forbidden thing, and therefore turned his amazed eyes from the dread spectacle of the roads that he journeyed." In book II, Biarco mentions Odin and Sleipnir: "If I may look on the awful husband of
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse briefly as the "Man Called Horse", an aging Englishman who has headed a Sioux tribe for 30 years... The film is anything but a triumph." Triumphs of a Man Called Horse Triumphs of a Man Called Horse is a 1983 American-Mexican-Canadian Western film directed by John Hough and starring Richard Harris, Michael Beck and Ana De Sade. Harris reprised his role as British aristocrat John Morgan, 8th Earl of Kildare, who becomes a member of the Lakota Sioux. It was the final film of the trilogy after "A Man Called Horse" (1970) and "The Return of a Man Called Horse"