Búri (Norse Myth)

Buri (Búri)

[Norse]Búri was the first god in Norse mythology. He was formed by the cow Auðumbla (Audhumla), after emerging from the primordial frost, licking the salty ice of Ginnungagap. Day by day, as she licked, the god emerged from the ice. He was the father of Borr (Bor) and grandfather of Odin. The only extant source of this myth is Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.

Hon sleikti hrímsteinana er saltir váru. Ok hinn fyrsta 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.
– Normalized text of R

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 Sturluson quotes the following verse by the 12th century skald Þórvaldr blönduskáld.

Nú hefk mart
í miði greipat
burar Bors,
Búra arfa.
– Finnur Jónsson's edition

Now have I snatched
much of the mead [made a lot of poetry]
of Buri's heir
Bor's son [Odin].
– Faulkes' translation

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Búri's name

The length of the u in the name is not explicitly marked in the manuscripts but it is traditionally assumed to be long because of its metrical position in Þórvaldr's stanza. However, the metrical structure of fornyrðislag is hardly strict enough for definite conclusions to be reached from a single occurrence - especially when the imperfect oral and manuscript traditions are taken into account. It is thus entirely possible that the original form was Buri.

The meaning of either Búri or Buri is not known. The first could be related to búr meaning "storage room" and the second could be related to burr meaning "son." "Buri" may mean "producer."

In any case the form Buri is often used in an ASCII context or as an anglicization of Búri. In the mainland Scandinavian languages Bure is used as a familiar form.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BAri
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Norse_deities

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Amaethon (Welsh) - god of Agriculture, Master of Magic

Arawn (Welsh) - god of the Hunt and the Underworld

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Badb (Irish) - goddess of War, Death and Rebirth

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Morgan LeFay (Welsh) - goddess of Death, Fate, the Sea and of Curses

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Bragi (Norse)

Bragi

[Norse] God of poetry, son of Odin and the giantess Gunlod. He was the chief poet of Odin and said to be very wise. He was married to Idun and he had runes cut on his tounge.

In The Lay of Hakon, Bragi is in Valhalla with Odin who tells Bragi to go out and greet Hakon as he arrives. Bragi is also in Valhalla alongside Odin in The Lay of Eirik, and Odin refers to Bragi as one who "knowest everything well". During the feast in Asgard attended by Aegir, it is Bragi who relates to Aegir the tales of the gods.
There was a 9th century skald named Bragi Boddason and some believe he may have been raised to a god by later writers. Others believe Bragi was an aspect of Odin.

Bragi from Norse mythology with a commons:Harp.

Artwork by Carl Wahlbom (1810-1858).

Borr (Norse Myth)

Borr

Borr or Burr (sometimes anglicized Bor or Bur) was the son of Búri (Buri) and the father of Odin, Vili, and Ve in Norse mythology. His wife was Bestla, daughter of the frost giant Bolthorn. He is mentioned in the Gylfaginning part of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.

[Búri] gat son þann er Borr er nefndr. Hann fekk þeirar konu er Bestla er nefnd, dóttir Bölþorns jötuns, ok gátu þau þrjá sonu. Hét einn Óðinn, annarr Vili, þriði Vé.

Normalized Text of W

[Búri] begat a son called Borr, who wedded the woman named Bestla, daughter of Bölthorn the giant; and they had three sons: one was Odin, the second Vili, the third Vé.

Brodeur's translation

Borr is not mentioned again in the Prose Edda. In skaldic and eddaic poetry Odin is occasionally referred to as Borr's son but no further information on Borr is given. Other sources are silent.

The role of Borr in the mythology is unclear and there is no indication that he was worshiped in Norse paganism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borr

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