Nick Strobelt
The Salt Lick
July 2 - August 13, 2016

Then said Gangleri: “Where dwelt Ymir, or wherein did he find sustenance?”

Hárr answered: “Straightway after the rime dripped, there sprang from it the cow called Auðumla; four streams of milk ran from her udders, and she nourished Ymir.”

Then asked Gangleri: “Wherewithal was the cow nourished?”

And Hárr made answer: “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.”