Ymir
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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
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
Ymir
…from, adds to, and differs from the accounts in the Poetic Edda. According to the Prose Edda, after Ymir was formed from the elemental drops, so too was Auðumbla, a primeval cow, whose milk Ymir fed from. The Prose Edda also states that three gods, the brothers Odin, Vili and Vé, killed Ymir, and details that…
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