 In "Gylfaginning", Gangleri (describe earlier in "Gylfaginning" as king Gylfi in disguise) asks where, in the distant past, Ymir lived and what he ate.High says that the cow Auðumbla's tears produced four rivers of milk, from which Ymir fed.Gylfi asks what Auðumbla ate, and High says that she licked salty rime stones for sustenance.