Nú hefk mart
í miði greipat
burar Bors
Búra arfa.
Nú hefk greipat mart í miði burar Bors, arfa Búra.
Now I have included many things in the mead of the son of Borr <mythical being> [= Óðinn > POEM], the heir of Búri <mythical being> [= Óðinn].
[4] Búra ‘of Búri <mythical being>’: Father of Borr, paternal grandfather of Óðinn. Jón Þorkelsson (1890, 3) points out that the mss’ bura must be read as Búra (with a long syllable) for metrical reasons. Gylf (SnE 2005, 11) reports how the mythical cow Auðhumla licks at salty ice-blocks and exposes a man called Búri, who is described as fagr álitum, mikill ok máttugr ‘beautiful in appearance, big and powerful’ and has a son, Borr. As a dwarf-name Búri is recorded in the Hauksbók version of Vsp 13/4 (see NK 3, notes). See also Note to Þul Dverga 1/5 (Burinn).