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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 is euhemerized in these traditions as an ancient king of Finland, Kvenland and Gotland. See Fornjót and Kings of Kvenland for details. Snow's son in ''Orkneyinga saga'' and ''Hversu'' is Thorri 'frozen-snow'. The ''Hversu'' also gives Snow three daughters: Fön (''Fǫnn'' 'Snowdrift'), Drífa 'snowfall', and Mjöl (''Mjǫll'', 'powdered snow'). ''Sturlaugs saga'' (section 22) brings in King Snow of Finmark and his daughter Mjöl who flies quickly through the air. The ''Ynglinga saga'' relates how Vanlandi the ruler of Sweden visited Snow in Finland and married his daughter Drífa, but left in the spring and did not return. Drífa bore Vanlandi a son called Vísbur. See Vanlandi for further details. The ''Hversu'' also mentions in passing, when speaking of Snær's distant descendant Halfdan the Old, that Snær's life lasted three hundred years. Snow's son Thorri reigned after Snow as king of Gotland, Kvenland, and Finland. Thorri had two sons named Nór and Gór and a daughter named Gói ('thin snow, track-snow'). See Nór to follow this lineage further. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Snær」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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