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The Building Of The Wall And Odin Eight Steed
I read the stories The Building Of The Wall and Odin's Eight-Legged Steed.These two stories are quite similar.They are similar in things like when the giant asked for the sun, moon, and for Freya to be his bride.However, there are also differences, which I will now be comparing and contrasting them.Those similarities and differences may not be much, but it still is.

One difference is that in Odin's Eight-Legged Steed, it is told that after everything that had happened, Odin receives a steed.Which its name was Sleipnir, the Glider.Yet in The Building Of The Wall, this is not said.Another one is in Odin's Eight-Legged Steed, that Loki apparently has two wives, one he feels is a better match, in the other story again, this is not talked about.

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