Sleipnir spear, which may be a valkyrie, and a female figure greets the rider with a cup. The scene has been interpreted as a rider arriving at the world of the dead. The mid-7th century Eggja stone bearing the Odinic name "haras" (Old Norse 'army god') may be interpreted as depicting Sleipnir. John Lindow theorizes that Sleipnir's "connection to the world of the dead grants a special poignancy to one of the kennings in which Sleipnir turns up as a horse word," referring to the skald Úlfr Uggason's usage of "sea-Sleipnir" in his "Húsdrápa", which describes the funeral of Baldr. Lindow
Svaðilfari Svaðilfari In Norse mythology, Svaðilfari (Old Norse perhaps "unlucky traveler"; derived from Old Norse 'svað': 'slippery' - cf. Norwegian 'svaberg' 'slippery rock'; '-il': footwear, protection for the feet; '-fari': 'someoneone who usually goes somewhere specific', 'a traveller'. Possible meaning "the one that like to go where it is slippery') is a stallion that fathered the eight-legged horse Sleipnir with Loki (in the form of a mare). Svaðilfari was owned by the disguised and unnamed hrimthurs who built the walls of Asgard. In chapter 42 of the "Prose Edda" book "Gylfaginning", High tells a story set "right at the beginning of