Horses...

Veronica Karlsson <aci...@earthling.net> wrote in message
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> Ordinary horse:
>
snip..
>
>         `.
>         | `._-._
>        /     `.  -'.
>      .'o  \    `.`-.-
>    .' .'         `-.`.',
>  .'         |       `.`.`.
> ().'    __.'.           `.`.
>  \_ .--'     \             `-.__        ____.----._
>    "          \                 """"""""           `.
>


Beautiful drawings Veronica!

Prudence

Lauri Kangas wrote:
> 
> Veronica Karlsson kirjoitti viestiss� <380...@earthling.net>...
> 
> >Sleipner:
> <snip>
> 
> I didn't get that one?
> --
> Lauri Kangas
> epl...@kolumbus.fBi
> Remove B for reply
> -----------------------
> "Give hammers to spammers"

Sleipner is the name of the horse belonging to Odin, the chief of the 
Old Nordic Gods (during the Viking Age). According to the myth, 
Sleipner had eight legs.

The nordic gods (Odin, Thor, Froya, and the rest) are vell know in
Norway (my home country), Sweeden (Veronica) and probably also in
Denmark (CeeJay). I even thought you finnish guys knew them, but it
seems I'm wrong here.

-- 
Herman Andresen (Sigless, but hey, maybe someone could help me?)
her...@ski.online.no

On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 14:58:26 +0200, Herman Andresen
<her...@ulrik.uio.no> wrote:

>The nordic gods (Odin, Thor, Froya, and the rest) are vell know in
>Norway (my home country), Sweeden (Veronica) and probably also in
>Denmark (CeeJay). I even thought you finnish guys knew them, but it
>seems I'm wrong here.

We don't need no Norse gods! We have Kalevala! V�in�m�inen kicks H!

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: > >Sleipner:
: > <snip>
: >
: > I didn't get that one?
: > --
: > Lauri Kangas
: > epl...@kolumbus.fBi
: > Remove B for reply
: > -----------------------
: > "Give hammers to spammers"
:
: Sleipner is the name of the horse belonging to Odin, the chief of the
: Old Nordic Gods (during the Viking Age). According to the myth,
: Sleipner had eight legs.
:
: The nordic gods (Odin, Thor, Froya, and the rest) are vell know in
: Norway (my home country), Sweeden (Veronica) and probably also in
: Denmark (CeeJay).

Definately !

: I even thought you finnish guys knew them, but it
: seems I'm wrong here.

Sleipner is not the best known  .. most people have heard of Thor , the god of
thunder and his magic hammer Mj�lner , maybe also of Odin and of the rainbow
bridge to Valhal .. but Sleipner is not known to many.

.: CJ :.

In alt.ascii-art Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen <REM...@CeeJay.findhere.com> wrote:
: : > >Sleipner:
: : > <snip>
: : >
: : > I didn't get that one?
: : > --
: : > Lauri Kangas
: : > epl...@kolumbus.fBi
: : > Remove B for reply
: : > -----------------------
: : > "Give hammers to spammers"
: :
: : Sleipner is the name of the horse belonging to Odin, the chief of the
: : Old Nordic Gods (during the Viking Age). According to the myth,
: : Sleipner had eight legs.
: :
: : The nordic gods (Odin, Thor, Froya, and the rest) are vell know in
: : Norway (my home country), Sweeden (Veronica) and probably also in
: : Denmark (CeeJay).

: Definately !

: : I even thought you finnish guys knew them, but it
: : seems I'm wrong here.

: Sleipner is not the best known  .. most people have heard of Thor , the god of
: thunder and his magic hammer Mj�lner , maybe also of Odin and of the rainbow
: bridge to Valhal .. but Sleipner is not known to many.

: .: CJ :.

Indeed, it's not the best known aspect of Odinism in Finland. I have just
been doing some studies of our own viking age culture, and it's rather
interesting to see how we had our own variant of the religion, just more
animistic.
  We had Ukko (old man), the god of thunder leading the pantheon for
instance. Basically the same stuff, but somewhat simplified.

We would have kept our thunder and nature worshipping ways too, if you
pure-Viking Odinist types wouldn't have let yourselves be turned to
christians, and then come over to convert the Clans of Suomi by the sword.
  :D
(ok, it was mostly the Swedes, and they came to stay)

	-Mikko, the Adept

"thinker, dreamer and adventurer"

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