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.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Audhumla¹

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

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Example Sentences

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Just as in the Iranian myth the original being, Gâyômard, considered as human, and the ancestor bull belong together, so we find in the northern myth a cow Audhumla associated with Ymir.

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Audhumla was the name of that cow.

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One day Ymir saw Audhumla breathe upon a cliff of ice and lick with her tongue the place she breathed on.

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Audhumla, the Giant Cow, went on licking the place where she had breathed.

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But he knew that if he did this, Audhumla would feed him no more with her milk.

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Auden, W. H.audial

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