Sleipner Glacier ( da, Sleipner Gletscher), is a

glacier A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its Ablation#Glaciology, ablation over many years, often Century, centuries. It acquires dis ...

in eastern

Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is t ...

. This glacier was named after Sleipner,

Odin Odin (; from non, Óðinn, ) is a widely revered Æsir, god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, v ...

's mythical eight-legged flying horse.

Geography

The Sleipner Glacier originates in central

Odinland Odinland ( da, Odin Land), also ''Odinsland'' in the Defense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts, is a peninsula in the King Frederick VI Coast, southeastern Greenland. It is a part of the Sermersooq municipality. The peninsula is fully e ...

, a heavily glaciated peninsula. It flows westward just west of

Ensom Majestaet Ensom Majestaet (meaning "Solitary Majesty" in Danish) is the highest mountain in Odinland, SE Greenland. Geography This mountain is a nunatak that rises roughly in the middle of the peninsula, east of the westward-flowing Sleipner Glacier and a ...

('Lonely Majesty'), Odinland's highest point. The glacier is roughly east–west oriented and joins the left side of the

Fimbul Glacier Fimbul Glacier ( da, Fimbulgletscher), is a glacier in eastern Greenland. This glacier was named after an Old Norse word for "giant" or "mighty". Geography The Fimbul Glacier originates in western Odinland, a glaciated peninsula. It flows so ...

just north of its terminus in the Bernstorff Fjord (Kangertittivaq).

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Together the Sleipner and Fimbul glaciers produce massive amounts of ice that blocks the fjord.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 102

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References

External links

Satellite map of Sleipner
Glaciers of Greenland Odinland {{Greenland-geo-stub