![]() The list begins with Sleipnir: 'best is Sleipnir, he is Odin's, he has eight legs. While many of them are featured in extant myths of their own, many others have come down to us today only as names in various lists provided for the benefit of skalds or poets of the medieval period and are included here for the purpose of completeness. The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. In the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, Sleipnir is first mentioned in chapter 15 where the enthroned figure of High says that every day the sir ride across the bridge Bifrst, and provides a list of the sir's horses. The Prose and Poetic Eddas, which form the foundation of what we know today concerning Norse mythology, contain many names of dwarfs. The Prose Edda consists of four sections, breaking the contents down into areas that discuss the gods, Norse mythology, and Skaldic poetry to name a few. ![]()
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