Blood on Ice fight their battle in the shadows beyond his world. To this end he will be granted a number of mighty artifacts and abilities, and be trained for a hundred days and nights by the old man. The first of these artifacts is a mighty sword (probably Tyrfing), forged in the dawn of the world, and the second given in a song is a mighty, eight-legged stallion ridden by 'his father's God' (Sleipnir, Odin's steed). He will also be guided by two ravens (Huginn and Muninn), and is granted a number of supernatural powers: first, the woodwoman, a witch, takes his
A Man Called Horse (film) A Man Called Horse (film) A Man Called Horse is a 1970 American-Mexican Western film starring Richard Harris and directed by Elliot Silverstein. It is based on the short story "A Man Called Horse" by the Western writer Dorothy M. Johnson, first published in 1950 in "Collier's" magazine and again in 1968 in Johnson's book "Indian Country". The basic story was used in a 1958 episode of the TV show "Wagon Train" titled "A Man Called Horse". Partially spoken in Sioux, the film tells the story of an English aristocrat who is captured by the Sioux people. English aristocrat John