Editing Sleipnir (section)

===''Völsunga saga''===
In chapter 13 of ''[[Völsunga saga]]'', the hero [[Sigurd|Sigurðr]] is on his way to a wood and he meets a [[Odin|long-bearded old man]] he had never seen before. Sigurd tells the old man that he is going to choose a horse, and asks the old man to come with him to help him decide. The old man says that they should drive the horses down to the river Busiltjörn. The two drive the horses down into the deeps of Busiltjörn, and all of the horses swim back to land but a large, young, and handsome grey horse that no one had ever mounted. The grey-bearded old man says that the horse is from "Sleipnir's kin" and that "he must be raised carefully, because he will become better than any other horse." The old man vanishes. Sigurd names the horse [[Grani]], and the narrative adds that the old man was none other than (the god) [[Odin]].<ref name=BYOCK56>Byock (1990:56).</ref>