Editing Sleipnir (section)

==Modern influence==
[[Image:Asbyrgi Canyon Iceland 2005.JPG|thumb|The horseshoe-shaped canyon [[Ásbyrgi]].]]
According to Icelandic folklore, the [[horseshoe-shaped]] canyon [[Ásbyrgi]] located in [[Jökulsárgljúfur National Park]], northern [[Iceland]] was formed by Sleipnir's hoof.<ref name=SIMEK294>Simek (2007:294).</ref>  Sleipnir is depicted with Odin on [[Dagfin Werenskiold]]'s wooden relief ''Odin på Sleipnir'' (1945–1950) on the exterior of the [[Oslo City Hall]] in [[Oslo]], [[Norway]].<ref name=OSLOKOMMUNE>{{cite web |url=http://www.oslo.kommune.no/losartikler/article23199-7726.html?articleID=23199&categoryID=7726&tip=1 |title=Yggdrasilfrisen |author=Municipality of Oslo |date=26 June 2001 |access-date=2 December 2008 |language=no |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125125123/http://www.oslo.kommune.no/losartikler/article23199-7726.html?articleID=23199&categoryID=7726&tip=1 |archive-date=25 January 2009 }}</ref> Sleipnir has been and remains a popular name for ships in northern Europe, and [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s short story entitled ''Sleipner, late Thurinda'' (1888) features a horse named Sleipner.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kipling|first=Rudyard|author-link=Rudyard Kipling|title=Abaft the Funnel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KeEhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA141|location=New York|publisher=B. W. Dodge & Company|date=1909|access-date=16 March 2014}}</ref><ref name=SIMEK294/> A statue of Sleipnir (1998) stands in [[Wednesbury]], [[England]], a town which takes its name from the [[Anglo-Saxon paganism|Anglo-Saxon]] version of Odin, [[Wōden]].<ref name=NOSZLOPY181>Noszlopy, Waterhouse (2005:181).</ref>