Audhumla

[ oud-hoom-lah, -huhm- ]

noun

, Scandinavian Mythology.

1. a cow, owned by Ymir and born like him from drops of the melting primeval ice: its licking of a mass of salty ice exposed the first god, Buri.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Audhumla¹

< Old Norse Authum ( b ) la, equivalent to auth ( r ) wealth + humla a polled cow

Example Sentences

Audhumla, the Cow, also played an essential part in Norse creation myth by revealing Buri – the ancestor of all Aesir Norse gods.

From Realm of History

For a moment, he thought she had been destroyed, then she lurched into sight and went around the curvature of Audhumla.

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From the cow Audhumla, formed at the same time, Ymir was nourished by four streams of milk.

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By-and-by a giant came out of the dark north, and lay down upon the ice near Audhumla.

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"Nobody's going to be sticky about what happened on Audhumla," he told Trask.

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Who tipped Dunnan off that the Victrix would be on Audhumla?

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