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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Norse mythical character Búri is licked
out of a salty ice-block by the cow Auðumblain this illustration from an
18th-century Icelandic manuscript.
In Norse mythology,Búri(Old Norse:[ˈbuːre]) is a divinity god 'producer, father'
of all other gods,and an early ancestor of the Æsirgods of the principal
pantheon in Old Norse religion.
Búri was licked free from salty rime stones by the primeval cow Auðumblaover the
course of three days.
Búri's background beyond this point is unattested, and he had a son,Borr, by way
of an unknown process.
Búri is attested in the Prose Edda, composed in the 13th century by Icelander
Snorri Sturluson.
The Prose Eddaincludes a quote from a 12th-century poem byskaldÞórvaldr
Blönduskáld that mentions the figure.
Búri's mysterious origins are the subject of scholarly commentary and
interpretation.
Name The name Búri, like the name of his son Burr, is derived from the
Proto-Germanic*buriz"son, born".
Thus, both names basically mean the same thing.
In research, Buri's name is translated as "begotten, father" and Burr as
"begotten, son"- probably because of the generational sequence.
However, how he fathered his son is not explained; either by himself or through
sexual reproduction.
Attestations Búri receives mention twice in the Prose Edda--once in
Gylfaginningand again in a skaldic poem quoted in Skáldskaparmál.
The Gylfaginningsection reads as follows: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 allrmaðr.
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 Eddaand only once in theskaldic corpus.
In Skáldskaparmál Snorri quotes the following verse by the 12th
centuryskaldÞórvaldr blönduskáld:Nú hefk martí miði greipatburar Bors,Búra arfa.
Now have I snatchedmuch of the mead [made a lot of poetry]of Buri's heir Bor's
son [Odin]--Faulkes' translation Notes and citations^Simek (Simek
2007:47).^Urgermanisch*buri-wird unter anderem rekonstruiert aus
gotischbaur‚Geborener‘, altenglischbyre‚Sohn, Jüngling‘ und
altnordischburr‚Sohn‘, siehe Robert Nedoma:Altgermanische Anthroponyme.
In:Dieter Geuenich,Wolfgang Haubrichs,Jörg Jarnut(Hrsg.):Ergänzungsband Nr.
32 zum Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde - Person und Name.2.
Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin − New York 2001, S.
111.^Wolfgang Meid:Die germanische Religion im Zeugnis der Sprache.
In: Heinrich Beck, Detlev Ellmers, Kurt Schier (Hrsg.):Germanische
Religionsgeschichte - Quellen und Quellenprobleme - Ergänzungsband Nr.
5 zum Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde.2.
Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin − New York 1999, ISB N 978-3-11-012872-7, S.
Online.^Jan de Vries:Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte - Bd.
2: Religion der Nordgermanen.
Verlag Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin/Leipzig 1937, S.
395.^Rudolf Simek:Lexikon der germanischen Mythologie(=Kröners Taschenausgabe.
Band 368). 3., völlig überarbeitete Auflage.
Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISB N 3-520-36803-X, S.
64.^Rudolf Simek:Lexikon der germanischen Mythologie(=Kröners Taschenausgabe.
Band 368). 3., völlig überarbeitete Auflage.
Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISB N 3-520-36803-X, S.
64 entscheidet sich nicht für eine von beiden Möglichkeiten - John
Lindow:Handbook of Norse Mythology.
US A 2001, ISB N 1-57607-217-7, S.
90 sagt, die Forschung gehe mehrheitlich von sexueller Fortpflanzung aus, ohne
dass er eine Begründung mitteilt.^"Normalized text of R".
Archived fromthe originalon 2008-01-05.
Retrieved2005-07-23.^"Finnur Jónsson's edition".
Archived fromthe originalon 2008-03-06.
Retrieved2005-07-23.
References Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989).Íslensk orðsifjabók.
Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans. Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist(transl.) (1916).
The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson.
New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Available onlineat Google Books.
Eysteinn Björnsson (ed.) (2005).
Snorra-Edda: Formáli & Gylfaginning : Textar fjögurra meginhandrita.
Faulkes, Anthony (transl.) (1987).
London: J. ISB N0-460-87616-3. Finnur Jónsson(1931). Lexicon Poeticum.
København: S.
Møllers Bogtrykkeri. Finnur Jónsson (1912-15).
Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. København: Den arnamagnæanske kommission.
Edition of Þórvaldr's fragments available
athttps://web.archive.org/web/20080306035446/http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/ugm/skindex/tblond.html.
Lindow, John(2001).
Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs.
Oxford University Press.
ISB N0-19-515382-0 Simek, Rudolf(2007) translated by Angela Hall.
Dictionary of Northern Mythology.
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