Búri

Búri

Búri was the first god in Norse mythology. He was the father of Borr and grandfather of Odin. He was formed by the cow Auðumbla licking the salty ice of Ginnungagap. The only extant source of this myth is Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.

Búri is mentioned nowhere in the Poetic Edda and only once in the skaldic corpus. In "Skáldskaparmál" Snorri Sturluson quotes the following verse by the 12th century skald Þórvaldr blönduskáld.

Búri's name

The length of the u in the name is not explicitly marked in the manuscripts but it is traditionally assumed to be long because of its metrical position in Þórvaldr's stanza. However, the metrical structure of fornyrðislag is hardly strict enough for definite conclusions to be reached from a single occurrence - especially when the imperfect oral and manuscript traditions are taken into account. It is thus entirely possible that the original form was "Buri".

The meaning of either "Búri" or "Buri" is not known. The first could be related to "búr" meaning "storage room" and the second could be related to "burr" meaning "son". "Buri" may mean "producer."

In any case the form "Buri" is often used in an ASCII context or as an anglicization of "Búri". In the mainland Scandinavian languages "Bure" is used as a familiar form.

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 online at http://www.northvegr.org/lore/prose/index.php".
* Eysteinn Björnsson (ed.) (2005). "Snorra-Edda: Formáli & Gylfaginning : Textar fjögurra meginhandrita". http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/gg/
* Faulkes, Anthony (transl.) (1987). "Edda". London: J. M. Dent. ISBN 0-460-87616-3.
* Finnur Jónsson (1931). "Lexicon Poeticum". København: S. L. Møllers Bogtrykkeri.
* Finnur Jónsson (1912-15). "Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning". København: Den arnamagnæanske kommission. "Edition of Þórvaldr's fragments available at http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/ugm/skindex/tblond.html".


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