Norse Mythology: Building The Wall And Eight Legged Steed

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Riley Powers Mrs. Crehan Language Arts November 7 2016
Compare and Contrast Norse Mythology Building the Wall and Eight Legged Steed are getting compared and contrasted in the essay. Building the Wall, a play was about a ruler named Odin. He and his family members wanted to build a wall around Asgard. The plot of Odin’s Eight Legged Steed is about how Loki turned into a horse and helped Asgard take away the mason builder of the wall with Freya, sun and moon. These were two stories going on at the same time but but two different things happening.
Both stories are similar in many ways. For example, horses were involved building the wall, Odin didn't like the builder/stranger in both stories, the wall was getting built by the stranger, and

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