The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . god,and as already mentioned, Thor always journeys and fights ^ Germania, 44. •^ Historia de origine Gothorum, c. 3 (p. 82, ed. 1611): alia vero gens ibimoratur Suethans, quae velut Tburingi, equis utuntui- eximiis; hi quoque suutqui in usus Komanorum Saphirinas pelles, commercio interveniente, per aliasinnumeras gentes transmittunt. famosi pellium decora nigrediue hi, quuminopes vivunt, ditissime vestiuntur. ^ Ynglinga Saga, ch. 33. He had the best horses of his time and ownedHrafn, once Alls, from which sprang another Hrafu given to king G
The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . god,and as already mentioned, Thor always journeys and fights ^ Germania, 44. •^ Historia de origine Gothorum, c. 3 (p. 82, ed. 1611): alia vero gens ibimoratur Suethans, quae velut Tburingi, equis utuntui- eximiis; hi quoque suutqui in usus Komanorum Saphirinas pelles, commercio interveniente, per aliasinnumeras gentes transmittunt. famosi pellium decora nigrediue hi, quuminopes vivunt, ditissime vestiuntur. ^ Ynglinga Saga, ch. 33. He had the best horses of his time and ownedHrafn, once Alls, from which sprang another Hrafu given to king Gothgestr. in] AND HISTORIC TIMES 119 on foot, whilst Odin never rides except on his mysterioussteed, eight-legged Sleipnir, it would appear not improbablethat the Swedes were riders of horses before the Norse, andthat therefore they, like the Prussians, had got them fromthe tribes of western Russia, such as the Sarmatians, who,as I have already shown, possessed admirable cavalry fromat least the beginning of the Christian era. It is therefore not. Fig. 48. Norse Pony from the Isle of Eodo. improbable that the Norse derived their horses in great part,if not altogether, from Sweden. Otherwise they must havederived them from Germany, for we have already noticed(pp. 23-4) the sharp contrast between the Celtic ponies ofIceland and the Faroes and those of a clumsier build, withlarge heads, and large hock callosities, which are almost cer-tainly to be ascribed to the introduction of Norwegian bloodIn either case then it is probable that the original stock ofhorses in Norway and Sweden, whether derived from Russia or V20 THE HORSES OF PREHISTORIC [CH. from central Europe, was the old heavy-built, large-headedEuropean Asiatic type found at Solutre. In the ponies of theIsle of Rodo, which lies off the coast of Norway considerably tothe south of the Lofoden group, we have probably the bestliving examples^ of the ancient race (Fig. 48). The earliest information concerning the colour of t
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