tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post5852184590397433422..comments2023-10-12T02:21:40.102-07:00Comments on English Historical Fiction Authors: The Horse in Early Medieval BritainDebra Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03256313302199653185noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-1450615781151676222016-07-26T04:16:18.527-07:002016-07-26T04:16:18.527-07:00Fascinating! I didn't know that about Yggdrasi...Fascinating! I didn't know that about Yggdrasil. I have read, somewhere, that the eight legs of Sleipnir represented the four pall bearers at a funeral. In other words, Odin was a death-related God. And then, there's Hengest and Horsa - a bit of a joke in the names of those two Saxon warriors. (In 1066 And All That, it was ,"Hengest and Horsa...or was that just Horse?"Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.com