Auðumbla
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In Norse mythology, Auðumbla is a primeval cow. The primordial frost jötunn Ymir fed upon her milk, and over the course of three days she licked away the salty rime rocks and revealed Búri, grandfathe
Auðumbla licks Búri free as she produces rivers of milk from her udders, an illustration from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript of the Prose Edda
Audumbla milk company in Stockholm 1908. This house was also Alfred Nobel's birthplace.
The primordial being Ymir suckles at the udder of Auðumbla as she licks Búri out of the ice in a painting by Nicolai Abildgaard, 1790
Búri
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In Norse mythology, Búri is a divinity god. Some believe he is the father of Odin and therefore an early ancestor of the Æsir gods of the principal pantheon in Old Norse religion. Búri was licked free
Auðumbla
…primeval cow. The primordial frost jötunn Ymir fed upon her milk, and over the course of three days she licked away the salty rime rocks and revealed Búri, grandfather of the gods and brothers Odin, Vili and Vé. The creature is attested solely in the Prose Edda, composed in the 13th century by Icelander…
Búri is licked out of a salty ice-block by the cow Auðumbla in this illustration from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript.