Claim: Sleipnir appears in the mythology of the Northern Germanic people.
Evidence: In Norse mythology , Sleipnir -LRB- Old Norse `` slippy '' or `` the slipper '' -RRB- is an eight-legged horse.
Norse mythology is the body of mythology of the North Germanic people stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period.