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In Norse mythology, Ymir, also called Aurgelmir, Brimir, or Bláinn, is the ancestor of all jötnar. Ymir is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional material,
Ymir sucks at the udder of Auðumbla as she licks Búri out of the ice in a painting by Nicolai Abildgaard, 1790.
Ymir is attacked by the brothers Odin, Vili, and Vé in an illustration by Lorenz Frølich.
The Wolves Pursuing Sol and Mani
Odin
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Odin is a widely revered god in Norse mythology and Germanic paganism. Most surviving information on Odin comes from Norse mythology, but he figures prominently in the recorded history of Northern Eur
Ymir
…of Ginnungagap. Ymir gave birth to a male and female from his armpits, and his legs together begat a six-headed being. The grandsons of Búri, the gods Odin and Vili and Vé, fashioned the Earth—elsewhere personified as a goddess named Jörð—from Ymir's flesh; the oceans from his blood; from his bones, the…
Odin, in his guise as a wanderer, as imagined by Georg von Rosen (1886)
Woðinz (read from right to left), a probably authentic attestation of a pre-Viking Age form of Odin, on the Strängnäs stone
One of the Torslunda plates. The figure to the left was cast with both eyes, but afterwards the right eye was removed.
The name Wōđnas on a bracteate from the early 5th century AD, written as mirrored text