Audhumla

[ oud-hoom-lah, -huhm- ]

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noun

, Scandinavian Mythology.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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