Random time

One of the excellent YouTubers I follow has a license plate of Sleipnir, I never got the reference but I never tried either. I recently looked it up, it was Odin’s 8 legged horse. I guess it is a reference to his land cruiser being the ride of the gods or something.

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However when I looked into it.

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So the story of how the 8 legged horse came to be:

Dude offers to build a wall to keep undesirables out of midgard and valhall and demands a goddess as payment.

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The Gods agree - With condition mexico has to pay for it he has to do it in one season without any help.

A compromise is reached through the assistance of Loki that he can use his horse.

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Well it looks like he will actually deliver on the promise thanks especially to his super hard working horse and the gods are unpleased with Loki for giving the dude a way to actually make it happen and promise to kill loki gruesomely unless he stops it somehow.

...and this is where it gets weird...

Loki, the shapeshifter, transforms into a mare and his plan is to lure this wunderhorse off into the woods to do...activities.

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Well it works and the builder doesn’t deliver on the promise - doesn’t even matter as the heretofore unnamed builder turns out to be a frost giant and when they find out they call for thor to come and bash his skull into shards...which he does.

However, while Loki did avoid a gruesome death by preventing the builder...who was never going to get what he wanted anyway on account of being a frost giant...from building the wall he gets a parting gift - giving birth to the 8 legged horse as a product of his escapades.

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Turns out this is a great thing as Sleipnir (the horse) is da bes.

I’d like to see Marvel Studios make a story out of that! I mean...damn asgard!