Borr

Borr married Bestla, daughter of the giant Bölthorn. They had three sons, Odin, Vili, and Vé. The brothers later took part in ordering the world and creating humankind.

Borr came from the line of the first beings formed when ice and fire met. As the ice melted, life appeared in the waters. Ymir emerged, larger than any giant, along with a great cow called Audhumla. Audhumla fed Ymir with milk from her four udders. She lived by licking salty ice blocks covered with rime.

As Audhumla licked the ice, she revealed a man. His hair appeared on the first day, his head on the second, and his whole body on the third. His name was Buri. He was fair, tall, and mighty. Buri had a son named Borr, who later married Bestla.

Borr and Bestla's sons found two trees on a beach. They made a man and a woman from them, then gave them soul, life, understanding, movement, clothing, names, speech, hearing, sight, and human form. They named them Ask and Embla. The inhabitants of Mithgarth descended from Ask and Embla, and therefore so did the human race.