Sleipnir continues that "his use of Sleipnir in the kenning may show that Sleipnir's role in the failed recovery of Baldr was known at that time and place in Iceland; it certainly indicates that Sleipnir was an active participant in the mythology of the last decades of paganism." Lindow adds that the eight legs of Sleipnir "have been interpreted as an indication of great speed or as being connected in some unclear way with cult activity." Hilda Ellis Davidson says that "the eight-legged horse of Odin is the typical steed of the shaman" and that in the shaman's journeys to the
Sleipnir (web browser) development of a new version of Sleipnir. Starting with version 2, the new versions are not compatible with the original. As of 2006 Sleipnir had 6% market share in Japan. Sleipnir was one of twelve browsers originally offered in a browser ballot screen on the EU edition of Windows 7 (and XP and Vista with an update), so users could choose between Internet Explorer and other browsers during the installation process. The stable version, 5.0, was released on December 24, 2013 with the latest Blink engine. The latest stable version is 6.0. In the Windows version, the browser's layout engine