St Edith's Church, Shocklach it has been suggested that it shows the Flight into Egypt. The citation in the grading citation identifies it as a "mounted knight" and dates it possibly to the 17th century. A very different but possible explanation has been given by Dan Robinson, curator of the Grosvenor Museum, Chester. He notes that the carving depicts a single rider on a single horse, but that the horse appears to have more than four legs, possibly depicting Sleipnir, the eight-legged mount of Odin. If so, the carving would be of Viking origin. In the churchyard is part of a medieval red sandstone
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