The next thing when the rime
dropped was that the cow hight Audhumla was made of it; but four
milk-rivers ran out of her teats, and she fed Ymir; she licked
rime-stones that were salt, and the first day there came at even,
out of the stones, a man's hair, the second day a man's head, the
third day all the man was there. He is named Turi; he was fair
of face, great and mighty; he gat a son named Bor, who took to
him Besla, daughter of Bolthorn, the giant, and they had three
sons, Odin, Vili, and Ve. Bor's sons slew Ymir the giant, but
when he fell there ran so much blood out of his wounds that all
the kin of the Hrimthursar were drowned, save Hvergelmir and his
household, who got away in a boat. Then Bor's sons took Ymir and
bore him into the midst of Yawning-gap, and made of him the
earth; of his blood seas and waters, of his flesh earth was made;
they set the earth fast, and laid the sea round about it in a
ring without; of his bones were made rocks; stones and pebbles of
his teeth and jaws and the bones that were broken; they took his
skull and made the lift thereof, and set it up over the earth
with four sides, and under each corner they set dwarfs, and they
took his brain and cast it aloft, and made clouds.
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