Búri (or Buri) was the first god in Norse mythology. He is the father of Borr and grandfather of Odin. He was buri-ed (Old English "byrgan") in the ice of Niflheim but was freed when the cow Auðumbla licked the salty ice for three days. The only extant source of this myth is Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda. Búri is mentioned nowhere in the Poetic Edda and only once in the skaldic corpus. In Skáldskaparmál Snorri Sturluson quotes the following verse by the 12th century skald Þórvaldr blönduskáld.