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thumb|300px|Loki and Svadilfari (1909) by Dorothy Hardy In Norse mythology, Svaðilfari is a stallion that fathered the eight-legged horse Sleipnir with Loki (in the form of a mare). Svaðilfari was owned by the disguised and unnamed who built the walls of Asgard.

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thumb|300px|Loki and Svadilfari (1909) by Dorothy Hardy In Norse mythology, Svaðilfari is a stallion that fathered the eight-legged horse Sleipnir with Loki (in the form of a mare). Svaðilfari was owned by the disguised and unnamed who built the walls of Asgard.

==Name== Svaðilfari in Old Norse translates as "the one making an unlucky journey" or "unlucky traveler".

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