Audhumla

American  

[aud-hoom-lah, -huhm-] / ˈaʊd hʊm lɑ, -hʌm- /

Also Audhumbla

noun

Scandinavian Mythology.

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of Audhumla

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

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Audhumla

The Bolide was on Audhumla a while ago.

From Space Viking by H. Beam Piper

He'd heard about that, on the voyage from Audhumla.

From Space Viking by H. Beam Piper

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

From The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths by Willy Pogany

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

From Space Viking by H. Beam Piper

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.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe

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