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Auðumbla

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says that cows appear commonly in creation narratives around the world, yet "what is most striking about Audhumla is that she unites the two warring groups in the mythology, by nourishing Ymir, ancestor of all the giants, and bringing into the light Búri, progenitor of the æsir."
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says that the cow Auðumbla's teats produced four rivers of milk, from which Ymir fed. Gylfi asks what Auðumbla ate, and High says that she licked salty rime stones for sustenance. He recounts that Auðumbla once licked salts for three days, revealing
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was borne through the countryside in a wagon drawn by cattle. Simek compares the deity to a variety of cow-associated deities among non-Germanic peoples, such as the Egyptian goddess
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may mean 'rich' and in turn 'rich hornless cow' remains generally accepted among scholars as a gloss of the Old Icelandic animal name. However,
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as she produces rivers of milk from her udders in an illustration from an Icelandic 18th century manuscript of the
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may also have been understood as the 'destroyer of the desert'. This semantic ambiguity may have been intentional.
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In Prayer and Laughter. Essays on Medieval Scandinavian and Germanic Mythology, Literature, and Culture
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suckles at the udder of Auðumbla as she licks Búri out of the ice in a painting by
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The compound presents some level of semantic ambiguity. A parallel occurs in
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in disguise) asks where, in the distant past, Ymir lived and what he ate.
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Anthropomorphic wooden cult figurines of Central and Northern Europe
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Illustrations of Auðhumbla from manuscripts and early print books.
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fed upon her milk, and over the course of three days she
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See discussion in both Lindow 2001:63 and Simek 2007:22.
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people, clan, and place names in Germanic heroic legend
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The second and final mention of Auðumbla occurs in the
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can also mean 'fate' and 'desolate; desert', and so
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Fictional characters introduced in the 13th century
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Búri

Stockholm
Alfred Nobel
Norse mythology
[ˈɔuðˌumblɑ]
[ˈɔuðˌhumlɑ]
[ˈɔuðˌumlɑ]
cow
jötunn
Ymir
licked away
Búri
Odin
Vili and Vé
Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson
Germanic mythology
larger complex
primordial bovines
cow-associated goddesses
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[ˈɔuðˌhumlɑ]
[ˈɔuðˌumlɑ]
Scottish English
Gylfaginning
Nafnaþulur
Gylfi
High

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