Búri (Old Norse: [ˈbuːre], 'producer, father') or Buri was the first god in Norse mythology. He is the father of Borr and grandfather of Óðinn, Vili and Vé. He was licked out of a block of ice by the divine cow, Audhumla. He lived alongside the primeval giant, Ymir.
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Buridava was a fort and sanctuary in the Roman province of Dacia on the Danube.
Búri receives mention twice in the Prose Edda-once in Glyfagining and again in a skaldic poem quoted in Skáldskaparmál. The Gylfaginning section reads as follows:
Hon sleikti hrímsteinana er saltir váru. Ok hinn fyrsta <dag> er hon sleikti steina, kom ór steininum at kveldi manns hár, annan dag manns höfuð, þriðja dag var þar allr maðr. Sá er nefndr Búri. Hann var fagr álitum, mikill ok máttugr. Hann gat son þann er Borr hét. |
She licked the ice-blocks, which were salty; and the first day that she licked the blocks, there came forth from the blocks in the evening a man's hair; the second day, a man's head; the third day the whole man was there. He is named Búri: he was fair of feature, great and mighty. He begat a son called Borr[.] - Brodeur's translation |
Búri is mentioned nowhere in the Poetic Edda and only once in the skaldic corpus. In Skáldskaparmál Snorri quotes the following verse by the 12th century skald Þórvaldr blönduskáld:
Nú hefk mart í miði greipat burar Bors, Búra arfa. |
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