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Aelyria wrote:

Interesting note: Baldr was the deity of just about everything positive (light, love, justice, peace, forgiveness, purity, and grab-bag of other things), and was more or less well-liked by literally everyone, and was apparently just a really nice guy. The Poetic Edda then claims that, after Ragnarok, he will be given life again and rule the new world as the only surviving god (of the old set, anyway). Some historians and anthropologists theorize that this was, at least partially, the effort of Christian monks to get Norse pagans to convert. After all, the old Germanic world pretty much had ended, so if selling people on treating the God of Abraham as "merely" Baldr got their enthusiasm up for Christianity, it didn't bother the monks too much.

That's actually really interesting
Also: Did you know Odin's horse, Sleipnir, is an offspring of Loki? Loki once transformed into a beautiful horse and ended up mating with another, resulting in the 8 legged steed