Baugi

The first was named Odin, the second was Vili, and the third was Ve.

And Snorri adds, in his own voice, that Odin and his brothers are rulers of heaven and earth, and that Odin is the name of the greatest and most glorious being that people know.

The names of the three brothers carry meanings of their own.

Vili means will, and vei is an old word for a holy place, a shrine or sanctuary.

And Odin, in Old Norse Óðinn, comes from the word Óðr, which meant fury, frenzy, inspiration, the wild ecstatic state of the poet and the seer and the warrior in battle.

Inspiration, will, and the sacred, the three brothers who would shape the world.

The Voluspar simply says that the sons of Bor lifted up the lands.

Later in the same poem, when the first humans are given life, Odin's companions are named differently.

He cast the hone up into the air, but since all wished to lay their hands on it, they became so intermingled with one another that each struck with his scythe against the other's neck.

Odin saw a knight's lodging with a giant who was called Baugi, Suttunger's brother.

Baugi bewailed his husbandry, saying that his nine thralls had killed one another, and declared that he had no hope of workmen.

Odin called himself Bulverker in Baugi's presence.

He offered to undertake nine men's work for Baugi, and demanded for his wages one drink of Suttunger's mead.

Baugi declared that he had no control whatever over the mead, and said that Suttunger was determined to have it to himself, but promised to go with Bulverker and try if they might get the mead.

During the summer, Bulverker accomplished nine men's work for Baugi, but when winter came he asked Baugi for his hire.

Then they both set out for Suttunger's.