The first living creature which quickened in the Primal Void was the cow Audhumla.
She licked out of the primal rime-rocks the ancestor of the Gods, Buri, and
by the four rivers of milk, which streamed forth from her
udder she nourished the primeval chaos Giant Ymir, who was formed out of the
elements.
From Ymir's limbs came the clan of the Giants: from his left armpit came that
clan of Giants which is friendly to the Gods, among
them Mimir, his sister Beisla, and the Norns.
Ymir's two feet begat on each other the monstrous clan of misshapen Hrimthursar ((Rime-thurses)Frost-Giants).
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