Svaðilfari
animal_ally earth Norse single tradition · 2
Svaðilfari is the horse belonging to a jötunn builder who impregnated Loki in mare form, resulting in the birth of Sleipnir.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 1200 CE
- Attested period
- 1200 – 1300
- Historical notes
- Documented in the Prose Edda, 13th-century Icelandic source.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Grani, Thor, Njörðr, Freyr, Odin, Loki, Ægir, Skaði, Þjazi, Baldr, Freyja, Iðunn, Óðr, Hnoss, Frigg, Angrboða
- parent of
- Sleipnir
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Loki, in the form of a mare, has been impregnated by the jötunn's horse, Svaðilfari, and so gives birth to Sleipnir”
#12642 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The builder makes a single request; that he may have help from his stallion Svaðilfari, and due to Loki's influence, this is allowed. The stallion Svaðilfari performs twice the deeds of strength as the builder and hauls enormous rocks to the surprise of the gods. That night, the builder drove out to fetch stone with his stallion Svaðilfari, and out from a wood ran a mare.”
#38568 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001