Boer

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

in Norse mythology, was the son of Bure; his wife was a Jote-woman, Bestla, the daughter of Baulthorn; she presented him with three sons — Odin, Wili, and We. By these the giant Ymer was slain, whose blood drowned the earth, and from whose body a new world was formed. The bones became mountains and rocks, the blood water, and the skull the arched heaven.