There was a significant importance for horses in Germanic paganism, with them being venerated in a continuous tradition among the Germanic peoples from the Nordic Bronze Age until their Christianisati
Odin and Sleipnir depicted on a monument from about the 9th century in Gotland
The gilded side of the Trundholm sun chariot
Remains of the horse burial in Mound 17, Sutton Hoo
The Wulfsen horse burial shown in situ
Hrafnkels saga or Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða is one of the Icelanders' sagas. It tells of struggles between chieftains and farmers in the east of Iceland in the 10th century. The eponymous main characte
The first page of Hrafnkelssaga from the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies ÁM. 156, fol. — one of the saga's most important manuscripts, dating from the 17th century.
Although the Norse god Freyr functions as Hrafnkell's patron deity, the saga contains few supernatural elements