Snær
Sign in to saveIn Norse mythology, Snær (Old Norse Snærr, East Norse Sniō, Latin Nix, Nivis, English "snow") is seemingly a personification of snow, appearing in extant text as an euhemerized legendary Scandinavian king.
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- Icelandic tradition
- Danish tradition
- Snow and Lǣ
- Snow son of Sivald
- Alternative spellings
- References
In Norse mythology, Snær (Old Norse Snærr, East Norse Sniō, Latin Nix, Nivis, English "snow") is seemingly a personification of snow, appearing in extant text as an euhemerized legendary Scandinavian king.
==Icelandic tradition== In the Orkneyinga saga, Snow the Old (Snærr hinn gamli) is son of Frosti 'frost', son of Kári. In the account called Hversu Noregr byggdist ('How Norway was inhabited') in the Flatey Book, Snær is son of Jökul (Jǫkull 'icicle, ice, glacier'), son of Kári. This Kári is lord of the wind and brother of Ægir or Hlér and Logi, all three being sons of the giant Fornjót. Fornjót was the king of "Gotlandi, Kænlandi and Finnlandi" and Snaer bears the title of a king too.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Snær” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.