Editing Sleipnir (section)

===''Gesta Danorum''===
[[Image:Hading og den enøjede Gamle.jpg|thumb|"Hadingus and the Old Man" (1898) by [[Louis Moe]].]]
Sleipnir is generally considered as appearing in a sequence of events described in book I of ''[[Gesta Danorum]]''.<ref name=LINDOW276-2777>Lindow (2001:276–277).</ref>

In book I, the young [[Hadingus]] encounters "a certain man of great age who had lost an eye" who allies him with Liserus. Hadingus and Liserus set out to wage war on Lokerus, ruler of [[Courland|Kurland]]. Meeting defeat, the old man takes Hadingus with him onto his horse as they flee to the old man's house, and the two drink an invigorating draught. The old man sings a prophecy, and takes Hadingus back to where he found him on his horse. During the ride back, Hadingus trembles beneath the old man's [[Mantle (vesture)|mantle]], and peers out of its holes. Hadingus realizes that Sleipnir is running over the sea: "and he saw that before the steps of the horse lay the sea; but was told not to steal a glimpse of the forbidden thing, and therefore turned his amazed eyes from the dread spectacle of the roads that he journeyed."<ref name=ELTON104-105>Grammaticus & Elton (2006:104–105).</ref>

In book II, [[Bödvar Bjarki|Biarco]] mentions Odin and Sleipnir: "If I may look on the awful husband of [[Frigg]], howsoever he be covered in his white shield, and guide his tall steed, he shall in no way go safe out of [[Lejre|Leire]]; it is lawful to lay low in war the war-waging god."<ref name=ELTON147>Grammaticus & Elton (2006:147).</ref>