Audhumbla
- a variation of Audhumla.
Example Sentences
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The vapors rose in the air and formed clouds, from which sprung the Frost Giant and his progeny; also the cow Audhumbla, by whose milk the giant was nourished.
From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by White, Catherine Ann
Answered Har: The next thing was that when the rime melted into drops, there was made thereof a cow, which hight Audhumbla.
From The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Anderson, Rasmus Björn
"I might as well stick pins in the divine cow Audhumbla!"
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various
Audhumbla, the cow from which the giant Ymir was nursed.
From Legends of Charlemagne by Bulfinch, Thomas
Audhumbla, the cow, in the Norse mythology, that nourished Hymir, and lived herself by licking the hoar-frost off the rocks.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
