Editing Sleipnir (section)

===''Poetic Edda''===
[[Image:Odin and Sleipnir - John Bauer.jpg|thumb|"Odin and Sleipnir" (1911) by [[John Bauer (illustrator)|John Bauer]].]]
In the ''Poetic Edda'', Sleipnir appears or is mentioned in the poems ''[[Grímnismál]]'', ''[[Sigrdrífumál]]'', ''[[Baldrs draumar]]'', and ''[[Hyndluljóð]]''. In ''Grímnismál'', [[List of names of Odin|Grimnir]] (Odin in disguise and not yet having revealed his identity) tells the boy Agnar in verse that Sleipnir is the best of horses ("Odin is the best of the [[Æsir]], Sleipnir of horses").<ref name=LARRINGTON58>Larrington (1999:58).</ref> In ''Sigrdrífumál'', the [[valkyrie]] [[Sigrdrífa]] tells the hero [[Sigurd|Sigurðr]] that [[runic alphabet|runes]] should be cut "on Sleipnir's teeth and on the sledge's strap-bands."<ref name=LARRINGTON169>Larrington (1999:169).</ref> In ''[[Baldrs draumar]]'', after the Æsir convene about the god [[Baldr]]'s bad dreams, Odin places a [[saddle]] on Sleipnir and the two proceed to the location of [[Hel (location)|Hel]].<ref name=LARRINGTON243>Larrington (1999:243).</ref> The ''[[Völuspá hin skamma]]'' section of ''Hyndluljóð'' says that Loki produced "[[Fenrir|the wolf]]" with [[Angrboða]], produced Sleipnir with [[Svaðilfari]], and thirdly "one monster that was thought the most baleful, who was descended from [[Býleistr]]'s brother."<ref name=LARRINGTON258>Larrington (1999:258).</ref>