Auðumbla

Audhumbla, also Audhumla, Old Norse Audhumbla " milk rich ", is in the Nordic mythology, the primeval cow, which is only mentioned in the Prose Edda.

Consequently, there were in Niflheim Hvergelmir the source from which flowed eleven streams. The further they moved away from the source, the colder they are, and their water eventually formed to frost and ice that filled the northern half of the trench Ginnungagap. Through warm air and sparks from the southern fire world Muspellsheim the ice melted in the trench and "it got the drop life." This created through the action of heat and cold the first creature, the giant ( Jotun ) Ymir who originated the gender of the Rime Giants. Ýmir fed on the milk of the cow Audhumbla. When the cow licked the salty, frosted stones, arrived in the evening of the first day out human hair, the other day a man's head, and on the third day there was a whole man who was called Buri and was big and strong and fair of face. His son, Burr got from Bestla, the daughter of the giant Bölthorn, three sons: the gods Odin, Vili and Ve.