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Búri (or Buri) was the first god in Norse mythology. He is the father of Borr and grandfather of Odin, Vili and Ve. He was formed by the cow Auðumbla licking the salty ice of Ginnungagap during the time of Ymir. The only extant source of this myth is Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.
Hon sleikti hrímsteinana er saltir váru. Ok hinn fyrsta er hon sleikti steina, kom ór steininum at kveldi manns hár, annan dag manns höfuð, þriðja dag var þar allr maðr. Sá er nefndr Búri. Hann var fagr álitum, mikill ok máttugr. Hann gat son þann er Borr hét.
She licked the ice-blocks, which were salty; and the first day that she licked the blocks, there came forth from the blocks in the evening a man's hair; the second day, a man's head; the third day the whole man was there. He is named Búri: he was fair of feature, great and mighty. He begat a son called Borr[.] – Brodeur's translation
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.
Nú hefk mart
í miði greipat
burar Bors,
Búra arfa.
Büri (died 1252) was a son of Mutukan and a grandson of Chagatai Khan. According to Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, Büri's mother was a wife of Chagatai Khan's one official. She was a beauty, and Mutukan was attracted by her while she served in the Khan's ger. Mutukan made her pregnant and instead of marrying her, he took her baby, Büri.
Mutuken was killed during the siege of Bamiyan. Chagatai raised Buri because Mutukan was his favorite son. Both of them were recalled by Great Khan Ogodei, and Buri was sent to his grandfather Chagatai when Batu complained about them to his uncle. After a year in Mongolia, he returned to Batu to participate in the invasion of Europe. When the Mongols advanced into Central Europe, he ravaged Wallachia. He had German miners and Teutonic knights put to work in Zungaria. They were captives of the Battle of Legnica.
After Guyuk's death in 1248, he sided with regent Oghul Qaimish khatun. Batu and Möngke had Buri murdered by a Golden Horde general who disliked him in 1252.
The Búri cave is located in southwestern Iceland and was discovered in 1992, by the volcanologist Guðmundur Þorsteinsson . This lava tube is one of the most remarkable caves discovered in the last 1,000 years.
The cave was closed in 2014 by the owners of the land in cooperation with Icelandic Speleological Society.
Usage examples of "buri".
Hall to stand in front of Buri brought murmurs of vote from all-those -seated on the benches along the walls.
Such a magnificent structure on such wretched foundations, Buri thought as the man stopped in front of him, inclined his head slightly, and raised his hand in a salute of greeting.
Some thirty years ago, when Buri had been a young warrior, they had suddenly poured out of the endless grasslands that stretched northward from the Iving all the way to the Icerealm.
Then Buri struck, falling on them from the east, smashing into their strung-out line like an avalanche of iron.
Though that insult had been the start of the current round of raids between the two peoples, Buri still hoped that somehow a truce could be reached.
When she sat in the High Seat beside Buri, even that grizzled old warrior, who had Buried his lifelong wife only the season before, felt his heart race and his blood heat.
A few of the Vanir struggled briefly, but in moments the hall was empty of all but Buri, Gullveig, and those Borr had asked to stay.
As the man vaulted onto his horse and sped off eastward, Buri looked to the north.
The Jotun had indeed crossed the Iving, but Buri had managed to rally: his forces .
A great barrow was raised to the north of the city, and Buri was laid to rest within it, seated and facing north.
My grandfather, Buri, was known as Axhand since he once killed a Jotun chieftain with a single blow from his fist.
For a good half hour he went on, up and down, back and forth, weaving a glowing picture of that long-ago battle when Buri earned his name.
I am Borr, son of Buri, known as Skullcracker, and more than one dead Jotun swine has known it to be a well earned name!
Opposite his ax, thrust through the belt, was the ancient dagger Buri had given him as his Tooth Gift.
Hall to stand in front of Buri brought murmurs of vote from all those seated on the benches along the walls.