The Sun having sworn to grant whatever Phaeton should ask, could not refuse. […] After having stood fifty years, it was overthrown by an earthquake. […] It was a magnificent edifice, having porticoes forty cubits high. The shrine of the goddess was of one solid stone, having equal sides, each forty cubits in length. […] It mentions Odin’s steed, as being named Sleipner, having eight legs, and running with inconceivable speed.