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Soon the mild air melted down and rearranged the poisons and the fumes and the sparks, and from the most solid things in this middle land a man was formed. His name was Aurgelmir, or Ymir. He stood and wandered the middle land, and discovered another creature coming alive there upon the salty rime, a beautiful cow, and her name was Audumla, the original giver. He lay down and drank from her teats, and her nourishment kept him alive.

Because his body was formed of self-generating stuffs, from his arms and legs and head he could create others like to him, and these were the first folk, the Hrim-thurse, or frost-giants.

Audumla lived off the salts and minerals that came up on the lands. She licked from the rime-frost a great long time, and in time she began to melt the rime around a new form, a beautiful, strong man formed from her giving, loving nature and her insatiable hunger. His name became Buri, and he soon found and married one of the hrim-thurse women, and they had a son named Bor. Bor married the daughter of Bolthorn, one of Aurgelmir's sons, and her name was Bestla. They had three powerful sons whose names were Othinn, Hoenir and Lothurr.

Bor's sons and the sons of Aurgelmir became inimical to one another, because Aurgelmir's sons were like unto him, they took and they used but gave nothing back. The useful portions of the new world would soon be exhausted, so Bor's sons sought out the patriarch Aurgelmir, and killed him. His blood was such that it flooded all of the middle lands, and caused a great sea to form, and there were none of his descendents that survived his death, save Bergelmir and his wife. They are the ancestors of the present Jotunn race. From Aurgelmir's skull Bor's sons constructed the shield of the atmosphere that surrounds the worlds, and from his bones the mountains, and from his flesh the dry lands and fertile soils, and found there were enough materials to build nine worlds in all, set around each other. They caught the sparks and cinders that flew out of the southern fires and set them as lights in the heavens, the greatest of which they endowed with spirit. The living spark they called Sol, and the ashen cinder Mani. Sol to give controlled fire and heat, and Mani to keep the waters in reigns and courses. From the fumes of Aurgelmir's brains they made the clouds, set to exchange the waters of the lands and the skies in equal measure. And then they thought on the hrim-thurse that had survived, and decided that there should be some warding against their ever again overtaking the worlds, and using them up, and so they set up one of the worlds for themselves, to keep guard and husbandry over their creation. They also set up a bridge of trembling ice in cold highest regions, that spans the distances between the worlds, and this bridge is called Bilrost. It shines with the broken colours of Sol's light: manfolk call it a rainbow.

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