Buri

Old Norse: Búri
Meaning: "Creator"?

1. grandfather of Odin
2. a dwarf

1.
In the norse creation myth, Audhumla licked the salty ice-blocks from the Elivagar, till the first beautiful man, Buri, came forth from the glacier (at the first day there came forth from the blocks a man’s hair; the second day, a man’s head; the third day the whole man was there.)
Buri, the primogenitor of the gods was fair and mighty.
He was the father of Bor, whom Buri created out of himself.

Prose Edda: Gylfaginning VI

2.
Buri was one of the dwarfs of the Völuspá.

Poetic Edda: Völuspá

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