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[[Image:Treated NKS audhumla.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Búri is licked out of a salty ice-block by the cow [[Auðumbla]] in this illustration from an 18th century Icelandic manuscript.]]

'''Búri''' or '''[[Tuisto]]''' 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]].

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