Sleipnir T-Shirt

Sleipnir (Norse, “gliding one”) is the legendary eight-legged horse belonging to Odin, the Father-God of the Norse pantheon. Sleipnir carries Odin between the world of the Gods and the world of matter. The eight legs symbolise the directions of the compass, and Sleipnir’s ability to travel through both land and air. The eight legs of Sleipnir were probably symbolic of the eight spokes solar wheel, and probably relate to an earlier form of Odin as a sun-god. There is some evidence that Odin himself was at one time anthropomorphised as a horse; Sleipnir’s ability to travel instantaneously associates him with sunlight. In Norse mythological tales, Sleipnir is the offspring of the God Loki and Svaldifari, the great horse of the Giants.