Borr- Norse GodDeity
Also known as: Burr and Bor
Description
Son of Búri, the first god licked from the ice by Auðumbla. Borr married the giantess Bestla and fathered Odin, Vili, and Vé, the three brothers who slew Ymir and created the world.
Mythology & Lore
From the Ice
Before the world existed, the primordial cow Auðumbla licked a salt-ice block in the void of Ginnungagap. On the first day, a man's hair appeared. On the second, a head. On the third, the whole body of Búri emerged from the ice. Búri fathered a son called Borr, though no surviving source names the mother. Borr then married Bestla, daughter of the jötunn Bölþorn. Through her, the blood of the frost giants entered the divine line. Snorri names this union plainly in the Gylfaginning; the Hávamál credits Bestla's father Bölþorn as the keeper of nine mighty songs that Odin later acquired.
The Sons of Borr
Borr and Bestla had three sons: Odin, Vili, and Vé. No myth records anything Borr did himself. His sons did enough. They turned on Ymir, the first giant, and killed him. His blood drowned nearly all the frost giants. From Ymir's flesh the brothers shaped the earth, from his skull the sky. They set the sun and moon on their paths and gave breath to the first humans, Ask and Embla, whom they found as driftwood on a shore. Borr stands one generation removed from all of it: son of the first god to emerge from ice, father of the three who built everything else.