Búri
Sign in to savethumb|Búri is licked out of a salty ice-block by the cow Auðumbla in this illustration from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript. In Norse mythology, Búri (Old Norse: ) is a divinity god 'producer, father' of all other gods, and an early ancestor of the Æsir gods of the principal pantheon in Old Norse religion. Búri was licked free from salty rime stones by the primeval cow Auðumbla over the course of three days. Búri's background beyond this point is unattested, and he had a son, Borr, by way of an unknown process. Búri is attested in the Prose Edda, composed in the 13th century by Icelander
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thumb|Búri is licked out of a salty ice-block by the cow Auðumbla in this illustration from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript. In Norse mythology, Búri (Old Norse: ) is a divinity god 'producer, father' of all other gods, and an early ancestor of the Æsir gods of the principal pantheon in Old Norse religion. Búri was licked free from salty rime stones by the primeval cow Auðumbla over the course of three days. Búri's background beyond this point is unattested, and he had a son, Borr, by way of an unknown process. Búri is attested in the Prose Edda, composed in the 13th century by Icelander Snorri Sturluson. The Prose Edda includes a quote from a 12th-century poem by skald Þórvaldr Blönduskáld that mentions the figure. Búri's mysterious origins are the subject of scholarly commentary and interpretation.
== Name == The name Búri, like the name of his son Burr, is derived from the Proto-Germanic *buriz "son, born". Thus, both names basically mean the same thing. In research, Buri's name is translated as "begotten, father" and Burr as "begotten, son" - probably because of the generational sequence. However, how he fathered his son is not explained; either by himself or through sexual reproduction.